LING 222 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4.1: Longitudinal Study, Vocabulary Development, 18 Months
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Mental lexicon: dictionary is the head of each speaker. Word: are symbols they stand for something without being part of that something, and the relation between words and what they stand for is arbitrary. For a word to be used consistently in combination with a particular object is not sufficient to qualify that word use as referential. Describing lexical development involves more than just describing what words children say and when they say them. First words may be context bound: context-bound word use, producing the word car at 9 months, but only when she was looking outside at cars, didn"t say it when she saw one close up or in the magazine. Words are merely responses elicited by particular environmental conditions: context-bound prelexical. Early referential words study of the first 10 words produced by 4 children: categorizes children"s words into 3 groups.
