PSYCH 9B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mutual Exclusivity, Language Development, Deixis
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Three theoretical approaches: learning theory explanations (e. g. skinner, nativist explanations (e. g. , chomsky) What makes learning language challenging: learning is not easy. Challenges: the child has to distinguish which sounds are speech. Mom and dad"s saying do have meaning: segment speech into words. To identify words, and their meanings, the baby uses: verbal context: Words the baby already knows: physical context: What"s going on when words are spoken. Challenges: the child has to distinguish which sounds are speech, segment speech into words. Context is not enough to tell the meaning of a word. Fly to refer to small insects, dirt, crumbs, his own toes: other times children to not make a term broadly. Deictic words: words that differ in meaning from use to use depending on the spatial location, temporal location, or identity of the speaker, example: this, that, now, i, you. I, him, hear, and now are deictic words!
