Language Flashcards
Language Comprehension
understanding what people are saying and what ur reading
Language Production
being able to speak, write, ect
Behaviourism
NURTURE: (Skinner) Children learn through reinforcement/punishment
Universal grammar
NATURE: (Chomsky) children can produce new words and sentences so they must have an innate ability to learn language. Also - children across all languages share common grammar rules. so must be nature.
Language development is Species-specific
only humans will naturally develop language
Species-universal
a child will learn language regardless of if they are taught
Brain lateralization
right handed people language development is controlled by the left side of the brain and vice versa
Sensitive periods
optimal times to learn language
Infant directed speech
the way adults talk to children
Sportscasting
basically just explaining everything that’s happening
Baby brain synchronizes with IDS
PROCESS OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION:
Speech perception, word segmentation, preparing for production, first words, putting words together, conversational skills, lateral developement
speech perception:
child learning that speech exists
prosody:
rhythm and pitch of a language, child learns this from womb
Catagorical perception:
grouping sounds into categories
word segmentation:
learning that sounds joined make words
stress patterning:
first syllable in word emphasized
Distributional properties of speech:
different sounds typically go together
preparing for production:
Cooing, sigh, smack lips, click tongues, squeal, babbling
word recognition:
able to tell words by first syllables
word production:
usually family members, pets, important objects, modifiers (mine, hot, all gone)
common mistakes:
leave out hard parts, replace hard to say with easy, reorder parts of work, overextension (all 4 leg animal is dog), Underextension (only my cat is a cat all other cats aren’t cats)
-telegraphic speech:
short grouped words (“mom eat” “read me”)
conversational skills:
more developed speech
private speech
(sports casting)
narratives
(telling stories)
egocentric speech
pragmatic development
(sarcasm, irony)
lateral development:
further development such as reflecting on conversations
