PSYA02H3 Lecture 3: Lecture 3- language aquisition by children.docx

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Caroline Barakat

Document Summary

But the brain can pick up structure without effort so called implicit learning. Grammar is learned implicitly, simply by hearing others. Speaking children learn the basic rules of grammar. Our brain can pick up structure (language) without us even trying: this is portrayed in grammatical rules, chompsky stated that we have an innate capacity to be able to pick up language structure. Tuning & pruning: the sensitivity of language to culture in children as young as 6 months old and some sensitivities become lost. Eventually the babbling transforms to the use of real words as infants continue to master difficult phoneme. Distinctions like wabbit and compound sounds like str or bl . Children are very sensitive to language that is specific to the culture that they are in. 18 20 months infants start using word pairs like give juice language skills start to take off. From 2-5 , is a critical period in language development .