PSY315H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Dan Slobin, Linguistic Determinism, Autobiographical Memory
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Chapter 8- lg culture and cognition in development. There are profound commonalities in lg development across lgs and cultures. Course of lg development appears to be universal. Phonological properties of lgs can influence how easy it is for children to get started on lg acquisition. High ration of v to c makes it difficult for children to segment the speech stream and isolate words. Morphological properties can influence the ease of morphological development: lgs with rich and reg morphology make development easier, lgs with spares and irreg morphology=harder. Grammar and lexicon can influence lexical development chinese has more verbs than eng. = chinese kids learn verbs before nouns and vice versa. In all lgs, children seem to have difficulty with irreg aspects of lg. Refers to the process whereby cultures teach their children how to use lg as members of their culture. Japanese encourage brevity + consider emotions and feelings, and north american moms encourage self-expression.
