Written Evaluation 2 Flashcards
Categorical Perception
adult like speech perception
examples: voice onset time
what changes in infancy in terms of perception of native and non-native phoneme contrasts?
Infants who are not yet “learning words” devote greater attention to the phonetic details of speech. Older children concentrate their efforts on word learning at the expense of fine phonetic detail (stager and werker)
- they have engaged in perceptual narrowing
What (two basic types of) information do infants use to categorize new things in their world?
- perceptual
- categorical
Perceptual features
- “what it looks like”
- based on similar appearing features,, to include color, shape , texture size, etc
- Use to recognize and identify object around them
- Perceptual categorization describes knowing what something looks like
Categorical features
- “what it is”
- conceptual categorization describes knowing what something is
- based on what objects do, rather than what they look like
Categorical hierarchy
- Infant’s first categories are basic level categories and first words are basic level words
- Superordinate level
- Basic level
- Subordinate level
Categorical hierarchy: Superordinate level
- uppermost level in a category hierarchy
- most general concept in a particular category
- among the later words children acquire
Categorical hierarchy: Basic Level
- center of category of hierarchy
- general concepts in a category
Categorical hierarchy: Subordinate level
- lowermost level in a category hierarchy
- specific concepts in a category
The different stages and features of infant vocalizations from birth to 1
- Reflexive (0-2 months)
- Control of phonation (1-4)
- Expansion (3-8 months)
- Canonical syllables (5-10 months)
- Advanced forms (9-18 months)
The different stages and features of infant vocalizations from birth to 1: Reflexive (0-2)
- The very first kinds of sounds infants produce
- Sounds of discomfort and distress (crying, fussing)
- Vegetative sounds produced during feeding (burping, coughing)
- No control over the reflexive sounds produced
- Adults tend to respond as if they are true communication attempts
The different stages and features of infant vocalizations from birth to 1: Control of phonation (1-4 months)
- Cooing and gooing sounds
- Vowel sounds and some nasalized sounds (airflow directed through nose)
- Infants typically produce consonant sounds far back in the oral cavity (e.g. “gooo”)
- Early consonant sounds are easier for infants to produce than those sounds that require precise manipulation of the tongue, lips or teeth
The different stages and features of infant vocalizations from birth to 1: Expansion (3-8 months)
- Gain more control over the articulators
- Produce series of vowel sounds as well as vowel glides
- Experiment with the loudness and pitch of their voices
- Yell, growl, squeal, and make rasperries and trills
- Early infant vocalizations are one component of a dynamic mother-infant communication system, whereby patterns of mother-infant communication relate to infant vocalizations
Describe the different stages and features of infant vocalizations from birth to 1: Canonical syllables (5-10 months)
- True babbling appears
- Contains pairs of consonants and vowels (called CV sequences when the consonant precedes the vowel)
- Reduplicated: repeating consonant and vowel pairs (ma ma ma ma)
- Non-reduplicated or varigated: non-repeating consonant and vowel combinations (do ma goo ga)
- Infants prefer nasal sounds and stop sounds in their variegated
Describe the different stages and features of infant vocalizations from birth to 1: Advanced forms (9-18 months)
- Dipthongs: combinations of two vowel sounds within the same syllable
- More complex combinations of consonants and vowels
- Cvc
- Vcv
- Jargon: special type of babble that contains the melodic patterns of an infants’ native langauge
- Not true words because not referential don’t convey meaning