HDF 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Baby Talk, Joint Attention, 18 Months
28 Feb 2017
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Learning language is not taught, it is an experience. Absorbing patterns of repeatedly occurring sequences of sounds. Inflection noticing inflections of sounds around them. See it when baby is full, comfortable, and content. Emergence of social smile - recognition of faces that are meaningful to them produces smiles. Sounds that are playing with all the different sounds they can make. Seem to be putting together consonants and vowels. Putting together consonants in phrases that sound more like words. Dropped the sounds of the languages they are not being exposed to. 18 months, a year and a half. Vocabulary spurt (due to fast mapping and joint attention) Over-regularization: using regular rules to irregular words, there are many mouses here instead of there are many mice here . 2/27/17: turn taking, staying on topic, state ideas clearly. Engagement of the adult and helping the child communicate their thoughts: joint attention. Pay attention to what they baby is paying attention to: turn taking.
