COMD 2050 : Final Exam Comd
Document Summary
During the first 2 or 3 years of development, a child requires interaction with other language users in order to bring the general language capacity into contact with a particular language such as english. The child must also be physically able of sending and receiving sound signals in a language. Deaf babies stop making noise at about 6 months. Input: infants are helped in their language acquisition by behavior of older children and adults in the home environment who provide language samples, or input, for the child. Caregiver speech: simplified speech style adopted by someone who spends a lot of time interacting with a young child. Also characterized by simple sentence structures and a lot of repetition. Speech becomes more elaborate as the child begins using more and more language. Normal children develop language at roughly the same time. Tied to the maturation of a childs brain. At one month is capable of distinguishing between sounds ba and pa.
