SLHS 22700 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Baby Talk, Speech Segmentation, Speech Perception

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Speech, Lang & Hear Science
• Course: SLHS 22700
• Professor: Ronnie Wilbur

Document Summary

How do we know? no, because they acquire certain grammatical rules by analogy and create words they have never heard an adult speak before such as goed . Motherese: when adults speak to children in a special simplified language higher pitch, slower, clearer, exaggerated intonation not syntactically simple not universal. What is the innateness hypothesis? innateness hypothesis: people ultimately end up with grammars that contain many abstract rules and structure that are not directly represented in the linguistic input they receive, born with the natural ability to acquire language. What happens to babies" sucking amplitude when they see or hear something new and interesting? suck at a faster rate when exposed to a new stimuli. Pre-natal learning what can fetuses learn and when? discrimination of the phonemes (sucking test), mother"s voice vs. father or others. What is a habituation paradigm? infants only respond to new stimuli and stop responding to familiar stimuli (sucking experiment)