PSYC 2010U Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Intersubjectivity, 18 Months
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Language: (cid:862)a(cid:374) a(cid:271)stra(cid:272)t, rule-governed system of arbitrary symbols that can be (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:271)i(cid:374)ed i(cid:374) (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tless (cid:449)ays to (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)ate i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374)(cid:863) Will not point unless caregiver is present. Learning language- sounds: productive abilities (pre-linguistic vocalizations): Phonemes: segments of sound in a particular language that differentiate words. Learning language- words: first word(s) around first birthday, growth of vocabulary: 6 years: receptive vocabulary is much larger, fast-mapping: Rapid word acquisition: errors in word learning: Learning language- sentences: first multi-word utterance around second birthday, (cid:862)telegraphi(cid:272) spee(cid:272)h(cid:863, morphemes: The smallest units of meaning in language. Whole word or part of a word. Grammatical morphemes appear in a particular order: the use of grammar rules: Protoimperatives - arms up (cid:862)up! (cid:863) Protodeclaratives - poi(cid:374)t + (cid:862)doggy! (cid:863: fun uses of language. Learning language 3 different explanations: environmental- learning, biological- maturation, interactionist. Children apply rules of grammar to novel words.
