LING 222 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.3: Childes, Language Bioprogram Theory, Articulatory Phonetics
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Studies of other cultures are crucial to discovering the universal processes of language acquisition. They use correlational studies in which they look for relations between different aspects of language development or between language development and other aspects of development or experience. Assessment of productive language from speech samples: speech sample collection. Recording and analyzing samples of children"s spontaneous speech. Using programs ex: salt (systematic analysis of language transcripts) Childes- a data archive availability of archive allows a researcher who has a question that can be answered by looking. @ transcripts of spontaneous speech to address that question using a much bigger dataset than any one researcher could record for a single study. Phonological memory: capacity to remember newly encountered sound sequences. Chapter 4: phonological development: learning the sounds of language. Phonological knowledge in adults speech sounds are the acoustic signals languages use to express meaning.
