CGSC376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Reduplication, Phonation, 18 Months
30 Jan 2019
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Because they are stressed (hungry, sick etc) Not intentional, but caregiver response as though it is. Makes sounds for fun, cooing, vowel like sounds, raspberries, clicks, nasal consonants. Adds squeals, plays with loudness and pitch. Syllables in long strings, increased variety of syllable type. With emergence of syllables begins the intent to communicate. At first more than 50% of the work of establishing communicative intent is in the hands of the caregiver. First attempts at speech may be near misses. Phonological processes- typical child"s attempt to simplify production task sound produced may take on features of a target sound (gog for dog) Mental representation of phonemes prerequisite to literacy. Phonological awareness is the single best predictor in young kids in who will learn to read and who will not with typical instruction. Conventions of print (space between words, the fact that in english we go top to bottom and left to right)
