Lecture 19 - Early Communication

Question 1

(reading):

Siegler, R., Saffran, J., DeLoache, J., Gershoff, E. T. & Eisenberg, N. (2017). How Children Develop. Chapter 6.

Slater & Quinn (2012). Developmental Psychology: Revisiting the classic studies. Chapter 13.

Answer 1

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Question 2

(lecture summary):

This lecture introduces the stages of early communication, from cooing and babbling to infants’ first words. It emphasises the role that non-linguistic information plays in early communication, including vocal prosody, and turn-taking as well as discussing the relevance of out three key themes.

• Children are exposed to language from very early on in their life
• There’s also evidence that children start to recognise and distinguish between parts of language early in life (or even before)
• The infant plays a role in this development but there’s also evidence of adults also aiding this development
• This support is not necessarily identical across cultures and individuals and can also be influenced by the individual differences of both the child and adult
• By around 12 months, vocalisations start to turn into speech – we will discuss this tomorrow

Answer 2

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Question 3

(lecture study question):

What influences early communicative development?

Answer 3

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Question 4

(lecture):

Read slide 4

Answer 4

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Question 5

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Describe a study that shows Infants exposed to language even before birth and are interested in what they hear.

Answer 5

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See slide 5

Question 6

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Describe a study that shows Infants prefer vocalisations to artificial sounds.

Answer 6

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See slide 5

Question 7

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Define and describe phonemes.

Answer 7

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See slide 6

Question 8

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Describe the discrimination of speech sounds in infants.

Answer 8

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See slide 7

Question 9

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Read slide 8

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Question 10

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Read slide 9

Answer 10

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Question 11

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Describe the stages of early vocalisation.

Answer 11

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See slides 11-15

Question 12

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Describe the universality of babbling.

Answer 12

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See slide 16

Question 13

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Describe studies that show that babbling predicts later language development.

Answer 13

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See slide 17

Question 14

(lecture):

Describe joint attention.

Answer 14

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See slide 20

Question 15

(lecture):

Read slide 21 onwards till the end of slides.

Make notes if you wish.

Answer 15

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