EDHD 411- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 115 pages long!)

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Education, Human Development
• Course: EDHD 411
• Professor: Lucas Butler

Document Summary

Language is unique to humans: noam chomsky, human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world . Early vocalizations: human vocalizations are flexible in purpose, unlike other primates. What counts as language : every newborn communicates from birth to 3 months using 5 distinct sounds (dunstan. How do children begin learning language: recognizing speech. Why might parents use ids: gets infants" attention, conveys emotion. **for both of these reasons, probably, infants prefer to listen to this over adult- directed speech. Adult-directed speech (ads) vs. ids in german mothers of newborns: fernald & simon, 1984. Other examples of ads vs. ids: fernald (1985) Comparison of ads and ids in the german mothers. Cross-language comparison of mothers" and fathers" ads and ids: higher pitch in ids, generally, more variability in ids. Infants prefer to listen to ids over ads: fernald, 1985. Ids might highlight words in the speech stream: categorizing sounds.