PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Word Superiority Effect, Language Acquisition Device, Noam Chomsky
9 Dec 2013
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Infants can identity syntax at an early age even when they can"t communicate. Phonemes are basic speak sounds - deaf can"t make them. Context: it is easier to identity a letter in context (word) then in isolation. Use the word for what we would expect the letter to be. Infants can identify speech sounds in any given language but lose it when nursed in a certain language. Video: between 8 months and 1 year the ability to identify the change in sound disappears. Before this 8 month mark they can universally learn any language. Generalize speech: recognize a word no matter how someone says it. Video: they should be able to understand the same sound made by different people. You can draw out a pa (pause) to a ba (no pause) Videos: brains are built with language in mind. Genes are available to discover any language (any race can learn any language) Children are much more capable of learning language.
