6. Language Acquisition 1 Flashcards
What are four skills involved in learning language?
1. A____
2. G____/e____
3. R____
4. R____
- Association
- Generalisation / extension
- Recognition
- Retrieval
Language acquisition uses ____ general skills
Domain
A lot of language acquisition is learning patterns. What are two of these patterns?
1. Patterns for which s____ fit together to make a w____
2. Patterns for which w____-t____ fit together in which o____
- Patterns for which sounds fit together to make a word
- Patterns for which word-types fit together in which order
Middle and high SES parents are more t____
talkative
Children with more t____ caregivers learn new words f____
talkative
faster
At 18 months, children from low SES backgrounds produce ____ words
fewer
Children from low SES backgrounds produce less ____ sentences
complex
By 24 months there is a ___month language gap between SES groups
6 month
“The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer”. Gaps between groups will widen over time. What is the term for this phenomenon?
The M____ e____
The Matthew Effect
Foetuses can hear from how many weeks?
15-18 weeks
Infants prefer their mother’s voice over ____ speaking in own language and ____ languages
Strangers
Another
Define Cadence
The r____ of l____/s____
The rhythm of language/speech
Mothers recited stories twice a day in the last 6 weeks of pregnancy. At 55 hours of age, infants did what compared to a control group?
Infants “w____” to produce the story they had h____ over a d____ story
Infants “worked” to produce the story they had heard over a different story
What are three things that help infants know where the breaks between words are?
1. P____
2. P____
3. S____ and c____
- Pitch
- Pauses
- Statistics and correlations
What is meant by Transitional Probability (Patterns)?
Sounds that occur together o____ are more likely to be from the s____ w____
Sounds that occur together often are more likely to be from the same word
