PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bootstrapping (Linguistics), Syntactic Bootstrapping, Behaviorism
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End of first years start producing first words, that are based on sensorimotor types of behaviors. Underextension: where infants use a particular word but narrowly. Overextensions: use the word to a wider range of objects ex: car, to trucks trains buses. Once they produce 200 words, they start to combine these words-telegraphic speech. Grammatical errors with 2 word utterances are rare. Language comprehension exceeds language production, there is a 5 month lag, they can comprehend 50 words 5 months sooner than they can produce em. Recall takes long, so they rely on general cognitive structures which are easier. Vocabulary see huge increases, children learn 5 words a day. A process by which they connect new words to diff things is fast map, quickly connecting words to concepts. Children fast map labels for objects, things are easily perceived ex: shoe, ball. They talk about objects to learn the meaning of the words.
