PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Gallaudet University, Fast Mapping, Language Acquisition Device
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Janet werker, a scientist at ubc, suggests that there are optimal periods for the subsystems of language acquisition in infants where they quickly learn new phenomes including ones from their non-native language. Laura-ann petitto, a gallaudet university psychologist, has found that a baby"s vocalization early on consists mainly of crying, cooing, and laughter. This later turns into babbling and eventually into proper speech: using words, fast mapping is the process by which children map a word to a concept after just one exposure. Give doll vs. please give me the doll): overregularizations occur when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to cases where they don"t apply (e. g. I hitted the ball): refining language skills, as children get older and language skill develop, they also develop metalinguistic awareness. American sign language: other researchers have been able to train chimps to communicate by touching geometric symbols that represented words.
