COGS 101C Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Language Development, Habituation, Cognitive Bias
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Cogs 101c: language development, part ii lecture 6 4/20/17. How often one syllable could follow another. Higher likelihood of syllables that occur within words than syllables that occur between words (like the end of one and the beginning of another) Infants can segment words based on statistical cues with very little exposure. This could be due to a domain-general ability as opposed to a language specific ability. 3 methods for infants: sucking habituation, conditioned head turn, preferential looking. Researchers also employ a huge number of variations on these studies. By 18-24 months, children know about 50 words. In english, early words tend to be mainly nouns. The noun first observation is due to an innate cognitive bias toward whole objects. Or there could be some sort of innate linguistic bias. Nouns are more frequent than verbs in english. Nouns tend to be less variable than other words in the language.