FRHD 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Bootstrapping (Linguistics), Noam Chomsky, Language Development

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2270
• Professor: Robyn Pitman

Document Summary

Pragmatics language is used for effective communication. Ability to attend to sounds sequences: produce sounds, combine them to understand words/phrases. Development completed by age 5: some not acquired until middle childhood for e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple, (cid:862)gree(cid:374) house(cid:863) (cid:448)s. (cid:862)gree(cid:374)house(cid:863) Strategies: simplify the pronunciation of adult (cid:449)ords (cid:894)i. e. delete u(cid:374)stressed s(cid:455)lla(cid:271)le, (cid:862)(cid:271)a(cid:374)a(cid:374)a(cid:863) be(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:862)(cid:374)a(cid:374)a(cid:863)(cid:895) Repla(cid:272)e hissi(cid:374)g sou(cid:374)ds (cid:449)ith stop (cid:272)o(cid:374)so(cid:374)a(cid:374)t sou(cid:374)d (cid:894)i. e. (cid:862)sea(cid:863) (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)es (cid:862)tea(cid:863), (cid:862)sa(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)es (cid:862)ta(cid:455)(cid:863)(cid:895) Study of words and their meanings: children understand more words than they use. Children say first word at 12 months. Age 6: vocabulary of 10,000 words, learn 5 new words a day. Fast mapping: rapid connection of new words to meanings, cannot consider all meanings for new words improves with age. 5 month difference: between comprehension of 50 words (language understood) and production of 50 words (language they use) T(cid:455)pes of (cid:449)ords i(cid:374) toddlers" (cid:1009)0-word vocabulary. Object words (66%: words children can move, fro(cid:373) the (cid:862)thi(cid:374)g (cid:449)orld(cid:863) (cid:894)i. e. doggie, (cid:271)all, shoe(cid:895)