PSY315H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: University Of Manchester, Voice-Onset Time, Joint Attention
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Chapter 3: foundations of language development in domain-general skills and. 10 months ability to relate to another person about an object: ex. smiling, primary intersubjectivity: a change from the capacity to share oneself with others to, secondary intersubjectivity: the capacity to share one"s experience with others. 12 months communicative pointing: infant points at and looks at a potential communicative partner at the same time. 10 11 months gaze following: they turn to look where another person is looking. 9 15 months joint attention: spending increasing portions of their time with others. Joint attentional state is where the child and adult together attend to some third entity. Infants who are precocious at developing joint attention skills are also more advanced in later measures of language development. Intention reading: involves understanding that other people have intentions (communicative intentions) and understand what those intentions are.
