PSYC 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Baby Talk, Verbal Behavior, Pragmatics
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The more experience children have with language and verbal interaction during the first two years, the more advanced their language skills will be once they reach school age. When testing semantic behaviour, researchers tend to rely on infants looking behaviour, whereas with older infants use more interactive measures. Prelinguistic communication: babies listen long before they begin to talk. They send signals, such as crying for distress, and cooing as non-distress vocalization. Infant directed speech (id): shorter, more repetitive, higher pitch, more variable in pitch, and less complex in vocabulary and grammar. A way adults communicate with babies, which babies are most responsive to - baby talk . Younger infants prefer baby talk even if its coming from an unfamiliar language. Perceptual magnet effect: sensitivity shifts to favour phonemes in the native language evident in most infants before the age of 12 months.
