Lexical Development Flashcards
What are some of the environmental factors in individual lexical development?
Hearing a rich vocabulary
Speech being heard in responsiveness to their own behavior
Being the first born child because the parents can focus all their attention on the one child
What are some child factors in the lexicon development?
If the child is outgoing
Cognitive - the ability to process words faster
Phonological memory
When do the first words appear?
Between 10 and 15 months.
What determines early words? (4 things)
Forms contain the sounds that the child produced frequently in babbling
Words they hear frequently
Early words are useful to the child
Ones they can figure out the meaning for
What are Markman’s constraints on word learning?
Whole word assumption
Taxonomic assumption
Mutual exclusivity
What is the whole word assumption?
Words refer to whole objects
What is the taxonomic assumption
Words refer to things of the same kind
What is mutual exclusivity?
Different words refer to different kinds of things
What are Clark’s pragmatic principals?
Principal of conventionality
Principal of contrast
What is the principal of conventionality?
Meaning of word is determined by convention - we all agree that words mean the same thing, we don’t have different words for the same thing randomly made up by individuals
What is the principal of contrast?
Different words mean different things?
What did Smith propose about word learning?
Children learn to use learn words. So they learn that names for objects refer to things with similar shapes. Proposed that the word spurt is a result of learning this knowledge
