PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Voice-Onset Time, Speech Perception, Baby Talk
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Possession of a human brain is not enough for language development children also need exposure to other people speaking the language. In all societies, adults adopt some distinctive mode of speech when talking to children: motherese or infant-directed talk, even young children adopt it when talking to babies, affectionate, exaggerated, higher voices, more facial expressions. I(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts use (cid:373)o(cid:373)"s i(cid:374)to(cid:374)atio(cid:374) to i(cid:374)terpret (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)gs a research showed infants did more of a task if the mother cooed the instructions regarding the task. Infants prefer idt to speech directed at an adult. Idt is not universal some cultures believe that infants are completely incapable of u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g so there"s (cid:374)o point in speaking to them. Infants learn more words when they are taught via idt. I(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts k(cid:374)o(cid:449) a lot a(cid:271)out the la(cid:374)guage (cid:271)efore they start speaki(cid:374)g it (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they"(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) observing it for a really long time.
