PSY315H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Chinese Grammar, Baby Talk, Japanese Proverbs
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Psy315 chapter 8: language, culture, and cognition in development. Course of language development appears to be universal. Dominated by nouns w/ verbs and adjectives increasing with age. High ratio of vowels in a language makes it more difficult for children to segment the speech stream and isolate words thus why danish children acquire danish slower in their early stages. Languages that have a rich and regular morphological system make morphological development easier than spare and irregular system: turkish vs. english telegraphic speech in children learning english. Grammar and lexicon nouns learned at greater proportion in english but in. Chinese verbs can be used as single-word utterances which makes verbs more salient, and because chinese verbs have narrower meanings, thus more verbs are acquired. Cultural influences on the content of children"s lexicon. Argentina know more kinship terms; us kids know more object labels.
