PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Mutual Exclusivity, Pragmatics, Language Development
26 Apr 2014
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Language development proceeds rapidly in the first few years of life. Telegraphic period (starting to combine words/contents are like telegrams) Recognize mother"s voice at 3 days prefer mother"s language and voice. Young infants can describe more phonemes than adults. Infants engage in pseudo dialogues with their caregivers. Proto-declarative (use a gesture to declare an object) Proto-imperitive (use a gesture to get somebody to do something for them) Joint visual attention (ability to know what another person is thinking about or looking at, following their gaze - this ability maybe a pre-cursor to language development) cooing babbling. Holophrastic period a single-word utterance with meaning of entire sentence. Types of early words children use (50 word vocabulary) Objects - 65% action words - 13% modifiers - 9% social words - 8% function words - 4% Linking word and meaning after 1 or 2 exposures. Some common errors may be the result of fast-mapping.
