PSY BEH 11B Chapter Notes - Chapter Ch. 10 pp. 397-413: American Babies, Pacifier, Morpheme
2 Dec 2015
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Prelinguistic infants show an intensive responsiveness to speech: heart rate quickens or slows according to human speech tone: exciting or soothing, disapproving vs. approving. Language is social and interpersonal: prefer familiar language with familiar accent/dialect, dialect differences serve as fundamental markers for who is. In adulthood, linguistic properties lead to emotional judgments ( us versus them ) decisive for social grouping closest to oneself. Infants are ready for language learning at birth: special responsiveness to language-like signals (blood flow in left hemisphere of brain increases major site for linguistic activity in humans) Languages vary in significant sounds, tones, rhythms, and melodies: newborn infants can make discriminations. Nonnutritive nipple ( pacifier ) and french/english speech from loudspeaker 4-day-old french and american babies. By two months of age, linguistically patriotic. Native language: characteristic rhythms of speech: sensitive to distinctions in phonemes (1-2 months) At first, infants respond to all sound distinctions in any language: japanese: la and ra.
