PSY315H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paralanguage, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics
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Language acquisition & the introduction to language acquisition. Different ideas: are there stages of language development, or is there just a gradual increase. Involves very precise neural coordination: result of planning and executing motor sequences o, neurological development that takes place in infants in order to produce speech, children spend much of their first year, speaking. Allows them to control their speech, and eventually the language starts to correspond with the environment around them. A desk refers to an object that holds things: languages evolve, change, etc, language is also borrowed from other languages. Tsunami was actually a japanese word converted to english: approximately 300 sign languages, we also lose languages (ie. What is language: language is a communication system, function communication, social interactive tool that is generative and rule governed. Communication rituals: reflection of the cultural shaping of language. Very young infants can discriminate sounds and languages from all languages, but they lose this at 9 months.
