PSYC 2500 Lecture 10: PSYC 2500 Lecture 10& 11
16 Nov 2016
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Changing times: in 1900, average adolescent vocabulary= 25 000 words; in 2016 = 10 000 words. Over view: de nitions, linguistic knowledge, language development, theories of language acquisition. Language development: speech: a verbal form of communication. Talking, speaking, singing, etc: language: a conventional system of symbols representing concepts and rules of governing the symbols. German, mathematical, french etc: communications: the process exchanging information between organisms. Raised in a home" setting by the kelloggs. Raised with a 9 month old boy. Made no efforts to teach the chimp or the child to speak. Human natural got lanugaure but the chimp didn"t. Family tried for 3 years too teach the chimp to talk. But only got mama, papa, up. and cup: washoe (chimp) Family attempted and she signed words from young children to about 130 signs: nim chimsky (chimp) Raised like a small child and taught him to sign: kanji (chimp) Alex the parrot, another example of an animal learning language.
