PSY BEH 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Deixis, Language Acquisition Device, Language Development
19 May 2016
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Lecture 12 notes: the child has to distinguish which sounds are speech a. i. To identify words and their meanings, the baby uses: a. i. 1. What"s going on when words are spoken: segment speech into words b. i. Use a word to mean what it refers to, as well as more object (moon refers to everything round) Word refers only to one thing (dog refers only to his/her dog, not all dogs) Words that differ in meaning from use to use depending on the spatial location, temporal location, or identity of the speaker b. i. 3. a. i. Rules that govern how words and phrases are combined to for grammatical sentences c. i. 2. Change the structure and you have changed the meaning. What makes language learning possible: behaviorist a. i. We learn to talk in the same way we learn any other skill: through reinforcement, shaping, extinction, and the other basic principles of operant conditioning a. ii.
