PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cognitive Development, Concept Learning, Pizzle
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Communication system in which words and their written symbols combine various regulated ways to produce an infinite numbers of messages. Prefer speech to other sounds/ prefer mothers language. Sounds: young infants can discriminate more phonemes than adults. Adults are only able to discriminate phonemes in their native language. Adult native japanese speakers have difficulty in r, l sound. Young infants are able to discriminate phonemes from most languages. Newborns sensitive to most speech sounds used in human languages. Over first year, gradually attune to speech sounds of native language. Exposed 9 months old american infants to mandarin chinese speaker during 12 lab visits (5 hours exposure: live interaction (stories, games, audio-video recording of mandarin chinese speakers, audio recording of mandarin chinese speakers. Through live exposure, could distinguish chinese sounds. In audio visual and just audio did not allow children to retain that sensitivity. Goal; see if children could retain this skill with interaction.
