CHYS 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Biological Interaction, Housekeeping, Universal Grammar
14 May 2018
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Exam before Reading Week
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Seminars are cancelled that exam week
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Exam will have ~100 MC questions
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Lecture notes- most important
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Textbook- links between lecture notes
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Key words
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Exam review/strategies
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Housecleaning
No one is more pure
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1.Arbitrariness –uses symbols that are not related to the concept that they represent (e.g.,
hieroglyphics vs. English letters)
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Unique ideas
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Produce things that are new
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2.Productivity –can produce communications that are unique; can express completely novel ideas
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Arguing the meaning of the word
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Speaking- words has meaning information is gained
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3.Semanticity –language represents a form of patterned information
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Not YouTube that is tied to a specific event
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Doesn’t have to do with time and location
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4.Displacement –language is independent of time, so you can talk about past, present, and future
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Accents- similar meaning but different sound
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5.Duality –language is represented on two levels: the sounds of the language and its underlying
meaning
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What Is Language?- something that you have and do
Language development occurs universally, and usually progresses through common stages: crying
(0-4m)- baby can communicate the levels of being upset (intensity), cooing/babbling (4-12)-
playing with a format of the basic elements of the language , initial words (12-18)- a lot of
variation of when the child speaks it first word, but the sequence tends to be the same, two-word
sentences (18-36), short sentences (2.5-5y), adult usage (5y+)- limited vocabulary and make
grammar mistakes, they generally are speaking the same way that adults do
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Body is involved in language but is not central
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Humans are the only animal that have complex language
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Requires environment
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Nature vs nurture
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Also often involves body gestures that appear at an early age
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Language Development
Components of Language
Week 5: Language Development
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Phonological development refers to learning the sounds of a language
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Basic essences of a language
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Repeating syllables over and over
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Language as a baby knows it
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Establishing control over the muscles that produce speech
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Language ability is maturing
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Babbling includes subset of language sounds, may serve a social function
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Babbling initially universal, then specific
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Babbling appears to arise from the same neural structures as language (e.g., left lobe)
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Phonological Development
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Illustrates the importance of the environment and biological interaction between the
two
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We aren't born to talk but we are born to learn language
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Use hands in a lot of different ways
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Filter the differences between deaf and hearing hand motions
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Repeated hand movements is the same as babbling
Not identical form that the parent portrays
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Child active intent to control their form of language
Language does not need speech to express itself it will find a way out by
whatever means necessary
Does hand and voice have the same meaning
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Speaking French- 2 words together
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Passing every major milestone of language in both hand and sign at the
exact same time
Children that speak and sign
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Deaf- sign language are the test case because it's not based on speech
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Video 1 –203 (S.A.F.) : Chedd-Angier.com
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Atypical Language Development
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Document Summary
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