PSY 230 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Baby Talk, Phonemic Awareness, Babbling
7 May 2015
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Individuals who are socially isolated during infancy and early childhood demonstrate weak language abilities. Deaf children who are not exposed to spoken or signed language until late in childhood demonstrate language difficulties. Recovery from brain damage early damage to language function recovers easily; late damage does not recover. Mastery of a second language depends on the age of exposure. Johnson and newport (1989: subjects - chinese and korean immigrants to the us. Measured grammar scores as a function of age of arrival or number of years they had lived in the us (controlled for years of formal instruction: findings. Conditioned to turn their heads to one side or the other to select which of two tapes they want to hear. Then presented with child-directed speech and adult-directed speech: findings. Infants show a clear preference for child-directed speech. Replicated with various ages including 1 month old infants: karzon (1985, subjects - 1 and 4 month olds.
