PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fast Mapping, 18 Months, Joint Attention
12 Feb 2016
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The relationship between a word and its referent is completely arbitrary. Reference: not goes with, but stands for: see apple in different languages. When i say apple, it doesn"t only bring to mind an apple (as a single item), but you think about the entire category of apples. See apple and say yummy every time: associative, but not referential: the words stand for something, and kids have to figure that out (start with association, and then learn that the words stand for something) 6 months (comprehension) / 12 months (production) these are averages o. Two categories over multiple trials: food and body parts (counterbalanced) Banana and foot, apple and eye, pie and hand. Could be due to limited experience (e. g. see duckie in bathtub 100 times and see real duck outside 3 times they just haven"t seen enough evidence yet of the real ducks) Expressive versus referential: expressive kids appear to be more social.
