PSYC 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Joint Attention, Substring, Syntactic Bootstrapping
9 Mar 2018
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>>richness in the environment in children"s linguistic skill. >> what the parent provides : levels of structure communication, phonology, lexicon, morphology&syntax. Language is the produce of several converging streams in development. Different components that give rise to language can have different developmental histories: communication. Language is first and foremost a tool for communication. Strong motivation to communicate and to treat infants" actions as intentional and meaningful. Parents and infants each contribute to communication: perceiving the sounds of language. Sounds of language carry information at several levels simultaneously. >>basic units of sound in speech that build words (ex: bit vs. pit, bit vs. bat, bit vs. bid) Which sound units occur together reliably as words. Which sound units can be combined in a language (ex: st- vs. sb- in english) Young infants are sensitive to the phonemic categories. Infants can actually perceive more categories than we can. Listening tunes the ear to one"s native language.
