PSY374H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Handshape
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Speech to children prior to birth children in utero can hear the mother"s voice and respond to it (by kicking) study: read book aloud during the last 6 weeks of pregnancy after children were born they were tested using special pacifiers that measured their rate of sucking. Speech to children in the first year of life phonological differences higher in pitch. Beginning of intentional communication this occurs when children apply their understanding of means and ends relationships to social goals two communicative acts: assertions (declaratives) (cid:224) the use of an object as a means of obtaining adult attention, requests (imperatives) (cid:224) the use of adults as means to an object the child starts using familiar behavior for novel ends: making sounds and gestures to get adult attention, provoke humor children start pointing and looking at adults to see if they follow their gaze prelinguistic children use gestures to get the receiver"s attention and to communicate.
