PSY 2105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Baby Talk, Surface Roughness, Dan Slobin
30 Jan 2015
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What is language: there are approximately 3000 distinct languages existing in the world, arbitrariness and discreetness distinguish language symbols from the type of. [grammar: language is a complicated system of rules that allow us to communicate verbally, language is unlikely to be only a genetic process because: Productivity of language involves an infinite set of messages that are unlikely to be passed along via the genetic code. Adopted children do not speak the language of their biological parents. * on average, american children say their first words at around 13 months, experience a vocabulary spurt around 19 months, and begin to produce simple sentences at around 24 months of age. * however there is great variability in when different children achieve each of these milestones. The acquisition of language was a function of learning. * child is reinforced for imitation of adult speech, punished for poor language effort. The nativist view noam chomsky"s criticism of the learning approach.
