PSYCH211 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Bootstrapping (Linguistics), Paralanguage, Pragmatics
31 Oct 2016
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Connect new words with underlying concepts after only a brief encounter. During preschool years, children get better at fast-mapping (2- to 5-years old) Fast mapping of multiple words: i(cid:374)sights i(cid:374)to (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:862)the i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) p(cid:396)o(cid:448)ided(cid:863) does a(cid:374)d does (cid:374)ot e(cid:395)ual (cid:862)the i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) pe(cid:396)cei(cid:448)ed(cid:863) wilkison, ross, & diamond (2003) Children were presented with five objects two of them were novel with novel names. Look at how they learn these two words used mutual exclusivity. 2-year olds are not good at this have hard time fast-mapping two new words. 3- to 4-year olds were better could map both words: number of verbs expands increase in complexity and increase in amount of verbs. Verbs: in languages where verbs are more stressed (chinese, japanese, korean) children produced learn more earlier. Do horses in general eat hay, or just the horses in this. Facilitates category-based reasoning (cid:498)mommy sock(cid:499) (cid:523)kathyrn, age (cid:883)(cid:524) (cid:498)tigers are bad(cid:499) (cid:523)ross, age (cid:884)(cid:524)
