PSYCH 3GG3 Study Guide - Hearing Loss, Social Cue, Mutual Exclusivity

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3GG3
• Professor: Mel Rutherford

Document Summary

Adult speech sounds and repeating the same consonants. 11 - 12 months combining different syllables and sounds of their own language. Infants listen to the sounds they are making and are exploring what is possible. Babies babble at the same time in all language communities. Still vocal babble at the same time with the same sounds. By 7-8 months adult speech production is absent. Proto-babble at the same time but adult speech production is delayed. Connect word with a concept after a 1 - few encounters. Instinct blind to the infinite number of possible referents when you point to an object for a child to learn. Infants must come into the world prepared with rules to acquire words. Novel word refers to a whole object and only that whole object. Novel words will refer to objects that are grouped conceptually or categorically, not thematically. New words refer to taxonomic categories not thematic categories.