LINA02H3 Lecture 3: LINA02 – Lecture 3 – First language Acquisition
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Lina02 lecture 3 first language acquisition. Midterm date: feb 25th , 2:00 3:30 in the regular classroom. Infants can discriminate any potential linguistic contrast in any human language. Even linguistic contrasts not present in the language(s) spoken around them. But after 6 months, babies begin to lose the ability to discriminate between sounds that are not phonemic in the language(s) they are acquiring. Infants display an ability to discriminate and recognize speech sounds: Japanese-environment babies: 6 month [l] vs. [r] ok, english [l] [r] Not directly tied to language of the environment. Function: exploring phonology/ phonetics: sounds of babble are universal, practice timing of sound combinations and execution of complex physical maneuvers in the vocal tract. One cv at a time such as [ma] or [di] [dubadu: the 12 most frequent sounds in the world"s languages make up 95% of sounds in babbling for all infants. Vowels: high tense and low lax [i, u, a]
