PSY315H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Speech Community, Intentionality, Syntactic Bootstrapping
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These processes are universal to a certain degree (not tightly linked to phonological inventory of language) Relationship between emergence of particular sound and what children do in the meantime can occur in combinations silly tilly: stopping, gliding patterns are claimed to be universally observed. We know infants can distinguish sounds effectively: perception precedes production. Fis-wabbit phenomenon: problem specifically with production of sounds patterns of words child could hear in adult"s speech that adult was saying it wrong comprehension side: child knows the right sound pattern for that word. But: even though the child knows that, child is unable to produce it themselves, production problem. Knows the sound pattern of the word: pronunciation does not mirror perceptual ability. Kornfield (1971) pictures shown to individual children speech-recorder used to record individual responses record what the child said recording children were in the phase where they still mispronounced the sound pattern of words.
