PSYC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Illocutionary Act, Vowel Length, Telling Stories
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Babbling 6 months, more sophisticated with a variety of consonants and vowels, universal timing, range expands. Emergence of first words like dada and mama. Comprehension is always going to exceed production, so a child can understand what is said but is unable to answer but complete an action as an answer. Story book reading and make believe play foster early language learning. Conversing with children helps greatly with language development. Kids who have dinner with their parents at night tend to have higher iq"s and better academic success. Language acquisition device (lad) biologically prepares infants to learn rules of language. Universal grammar all humans have ability to learn language in the same way. Language, in the way we think is important is unique to humans. Animal language language seems to be unique to humans. Brain structures regions predisposed to language processing (broca"s and wernicke"s area) (temporal and frontal left side hemisphere) Contradicts observation of development (more experimentation, learning involved)