Language development

Question 1

As babies approach their first birthday, they become less and less sensitive to

Answer 1

Phonetic distinctions outside of thier language

Question 2

How do babies connect what they’re saying with what they mean

Answer 2

One hypothesis looks at association i.e. parent points at bottle and sas bottle
However, sometimes the baby is looking at something else so its not that simple

Question 3

Joint attention:

Answer 3

When baby hears new word, they turn around to see what the speaker is looking at to assign the new word to what they’ve heard.

Question 4

When do babies say their first word

Answer 4

1st birthday

Question 5

What is the first word usually for a baby

Answer 5

A noun

Question 6

Overextension error:

Answer 6

Word that refers to 1 thing and babies overextend the reference e.g. looks up and says moon,sees a cricket ball and thinks thats a moon too

Question 7

Underextension error

Answer 7

Common noun that they treat as a proper name e.g. knows name of family pet as dog but doesn’t extend that to any other dog.

Question 8

Overregularisaion error

Answer 8

At ages 3-8, something goes on in the mind where the grammatical rule is extracted and becomes overapplied. They take the past tense and the stem and just add ‘ed’ e.g. blowed up