PSY315H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tabula Rasa, Natural Experiment, Sign Language
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Development of communicative competence no readings from science. Linguistic competence + communicative competence linguistic competence: being able to understand/produce language. Responding to questions: appropriate use of the language in communicative situations, language they use are about them, may appear as interactions, but they are collective monologues. Child understands that something is expected from them. What and where : is more here and now. Child is more likely to respond with a full sentence with what they said. You want what : child will answer with part of the previous utterance. More likely to talk to an adult than a peer. Important to keep on talking to some extent. Stop mimicking the previous utterance: doesn"t present any new information. Answer to comment appropriately and also present some kind of new information. Mlu mean length utterance: average how long the phrases that a child can produce are.
