Language Development Flashcards
1. Explain why speech perception is a hard problem, and ways that the brain/mind solves it. 2. Describe the methods used to study speech perception in infants. 3. Provide experimental evidence that infant brains are adapted for language learning. 4. Identify the typical stages in child language development.
1
Q
Categorical Perception
A
The idea that small differences in sounds (variants) of the same phoneme are less noticeable than differences between different phonemes.
Example: It’s harder to hear the difference between different “ba” sounds than between “ba” and “pa”.
2
Q
at what age can babies easily distinguish between different phonemes
A
At 6-8 months
3
Q
at what age babies start to only learn the phonemes of their language
A
10-12 months
