PSYC 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Baby Talk, Frontal Lobe, Language Acquisition Device
16 Nov 2016
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Language & the concept of infinite generativity + language rules. Infinite generativity: the ability to produce an endless number of meaningful sentences using a finite set of words and rules. Describe the typical sequence/age of the acquisition of language development milestones. What can you say about children and Can differentiate their mother"s voice from the voices of other women. Can differentiate the language that their mother spoke while the: recognizing language sounds baby was in utero. Infants can make fine distinctions among the sounds of the language (theirs and others) Over the 1st 6 months, infants begin to specialize in sounds from their own language. To learn words, infants must fish out individual words from the nonstop stream of sound that makes up ordinary speech. Babies" sounds go through the following sequence during the first year: Pointing is considered by language experts as an important index of the social aspects of language. Pointing first occurs without checking on adult gaze.
