PSYC 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Baby Sign Language, Noam Chomsky, Speech Perception
10 Dec 2013
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Chapter 11: theories of language development, how do children master the particular language to which they are exposed, productivity- the property of language that permits humans to produce and comprehend an infinite number of statements. Such languages are not simply passed through genetics. So, environment has to do with acquiring language: variety aspect of language also indicate that a purely genetic explanation is not a good one, support against purely nurture: children learn tough grammars without parents having to teach them. They then use these high probability co occurrence to rapidly learn about words and grammar. Statistical branch of connectionism (from ip theory chapter 9: these theorists argue that the child"s ability to track probabilities and distributions is innate, but language is not special. Gestures and non-verbal responses: functions of gestures, 8-10 months infants use gesture to request for things, 11-12 months referential communications- talking about something in the environment.
