Language acquisition 1

Question 1

what do you need to master language

Answer 1

able to recognise your own language. recognise words, understand/remember word meanings. extend word meanings. speak. combine words. use syntax

Question 2

what skills do you need to learn language

Answer 2

association (sound w words, words w meanings) generalisation/extension, recognition, retrieval

Question 3

what does language acquisition use.

Answer 3

domain general skills. a lot of language is learning patterns e.g. patterns for which sound fit together to make words, patterns for which word types fit together in which order.

Question 4

milestones of language in months

Answer 4

cooing 1-4, understand highly used words 4-8 months. babbling 4-10, first word 10-14, first sentence 18-30

Question 5

what is the Matthew effect

Answer 5

rich get rich poor get poorer. vocab differs between socio-economic status (SES). by 2yrs old theres a 6 month gap between SES groups

Question 6

when can a foetus hear

Answer 6

15-18 weeks.

Question 7

what voices do infants prefer

Answer 7

prefer mothers voice to fathers, prefer parents voice to strangers. prefer their own language over other language

Question 8

what is the DeCasper study, what did they conclude, what year

Answer 8

1987, mum recited story 2x a day 6 weeks before birth. at 55hrs of age infants worked to produce story they had heard over a different story. shows foetus & infants can learn and recall cadence.

Question 9

what is transitional probability. why do infants use it

Answer 9

a type of statistical learning. sounds that occur together are more likely to be from the same word. infants use this for speech perception. helps them solve the task of word segmentation.

Question 10

how do infants segment speech. and why

Answer 10

to be able to understand what a word means infants must first isolate it. they segment it via statistical regularites/patterns.

Question 11

what is IDS

Answer 11

infant directed speech. helps childern to isolate words via parents using a high pitch on a key word in a sentance e.g. look at the DOG. uses high pitch, repetition exaggerated inotation.

Question 12

what is CDS

Answer 12

child directed speech. parents adjust speech to isolate words they dont think their child knows.

Question 13

when does child recognise name, mom & dad, words of familair objects

Answer 13

infant understands its own name at 4mo, understands mummy and daddy at 6mo, understands words of familiar object at 6-9mo