PSYC 3290 Final: WEEK 2 LECTURE 2

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3290
• Professor: Chandan Narayan

Document Summary

Week 2 lecture 2: kids are better at learning new languages than adults, first language acquisition- experience with :irst language, adults may ask for help and use resources to overcome challenges unlike infants. Acquiring language in infancy: dont produce words till a year old (10months to 12 months, they are sensitive to sounds and speech sounds since birth, they can differentiate between languages at 4 days old. What can infants do: differentiate native language from others, have a sense of how speech is chopped into words, give attn to phonemic distinctions (b or p, ball or paw) Week 2 lecture 2 baby listens to same sound and sucking gets slower and less intense, the sound. If the looking time on new is longer the change has been recognized. Jusczyk and aslin, 1995: conditioned head turned, head-turn preference- Baby uses eyes to show if they are excited or not. 7 month year olds and older can do this not younger.