PSY 3136 : PSY3136-Language Development FULL Notes
12 Dec 2013
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Some see desire to communicate basis for language development (ex: hoff). Desire to communicate to other people, actually developing language: pragmatic bootstrapping: infant starts off with an intent to communicate, realizes they can influence other people (through gestures and crying). Realization that they can influence via communicative acts will effective their development: difficult to prove, there has been no proof to this. Some see it as independent (ex: chomsky). They try to prove that they can dissociate these two things. They did this through evidence: firstborns better at vocabulary, second borns better at communication (i. e. conversational skills), thus separable skills. Conversation is pragmatic: children with autism: language, but fail to communicate. They are better at language but not at communication. They do not have deficits in vocabulary and grammar but they are not good at pragmatics. Any communicative act that an individual engages in purposefully. The purpose behind the act: dog barks at door.
