Done applied psych Flashcards
Units of language
Phoneme> morpheme > word> phrase> sentence
examle of
talked
phoneme
morpheme
word
phoneme tok - t
morpheme talk-ed
word = talked
__ phoemes in english
46
cross linguistic average of __ phoemes
25
some languages use
tones (tonemes)
durations (chronemes)
all 3 = tonemes, chronemes, phoneme
define
morpheme
smallest part of speech with meaning = abstract concept
not syllable or word
categorise language
cat
cats
unhelpful
mice
cat
1 phoneme
1 morpheme
1 word
cats
2 morphemes
1 phoneme/ syllable
1 word
unhelpful
3 mophemes
3 phonemes/syllables
1 word
mice
2 morphemes
2 phoneme
1 word
__ views on child language
2
1=organism/nativist (nature)
2=environmental learning (nurture)
define
nature view
1 of 2 views of child languages
organism/nativist
a = hardware = biology
b= softwaare = cognition
LAD and the innateness hypothesis (Chomsky)
Universal Grammar and “Parameter setting” ( Pinker, the language instinct)
define
nurture view
1 of 2 views
environment/learning
a= social interaction
b=environmental events
Language development follows general principle of learning and reinforcement ( Skinner, Verbal behaviour)
define
compromise of social interactionism
social interactionism
= emphasis on social interaction but acknowledges role of biology and stresses the importance of child-directed speech- caretakerese
(Bruner; Berko-Gleason)
Primate language
gua
viki
Winthrop and Luella Kellogg
Gua chimpanzee raised with ^ son
at 16 months gua = understood 100 english words
Gua didn’t progress any further and could not speak words
Viki = learned about 6 english words
chimpanzees don’t have a vocal apparatus suitable for human speech
Primate language
ASL
washoe
koko
Gardner
Washoe
age 5 = 132 signs
2, 3-word sentences
produced novel words
washoe taught adopted daughter ASL when no human presence
Terrace = attempted to replicate ^ work through skinnerian reinforcement contingencies
koko
could understand 2000 spoken words
could sign 500 words in GSL
could string upto 7 words to form a sentence
able to express emotions and understand abstract concepts like pregnancy and death
IQ 70-75
GSL =
gorilla sign language
Kanzi
exposed to yerkish keyboard from 6 months
was not interested in yerkish keyboard but mother was trained to
kanzi attempted to imitate human speech in terms of pitch and intonation
started to use keyboard spontaneously when weaned from mum
immediate comprehension of skills that were taught to ither chimps.
used symbols to request thins
Alex
parrot
irene pepperberg
vocab = 150 words recognised quantities up to 6 distinguish 7 colours 5 shapes understand concepts of bigger, smaller, same, diff, over, under