JLP315H1 Lecture Notes - Birds Eye View, Habituation, Natural Environment
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Infants learning to communicate, which is more broad than language can communicate with gestures, eye contact, etc. Infants being able to communicate provide groundwork on which language develops. A lot of studies that have tried to figure out whether a child can learn new words from listening to. Tv; consistently, children do not learn language from television, but from other human beings. Teleological is goal-oriented young children can communicate without using words ex. Child is hungry and hits refrigerator; the child has communicative goal in mind when goes to refrigerator i. e. feed me! Father is engaging the infant"s attention a major way: infant-directed speech . Not much variation in what they were vocalized imitation, indicating paying attention to the other baby. Changes in pitch, intonation i. e. questioning tone, prosody manipulating stream of sound more like speech. When a child uses a word, they may not have enough psychological or linguistic understanding to use it in an adult way.
