Language Exam 1

joint attention example

triatic interaction, 2 people 1 object

communicative development

sender, receiver, signal in between

perlocutionary effect

recivers’s response

always exists because mother will respond to babies cry

illocutionary force

around 10 months

“if I ask for help I will get it”

children can become aware that their behavior can be used to communicate with others

locutionary force

child uses language to refer

illocutionary force age

9-10 months

joint attention occurs

behvaorist

nurture inspired

operant conditioning, reinforcement

lamguage needs to be taught and learned

nativist

nature

child’s brain contains special language learning mechanisms in birth

cognitivist

language is one aspect of a childs intellecutal development

phonation stage

0-2 months

quasivowels, vocants

gooing

infants produce sounds in the back of the mouth

vocal play

explore loudness, pitch

expansion stage

3-8 months

marginal babbling

canonical babbling

5-10 months closants and vocants

reduplicative babbling

mamamama

comes before canonical babbling

jargon

uses strings of unintelligible syllables that mimic the rhythm, tone, and intonation of real adult sentences

continuative hypothesis of babbling in first word

sounds in first words are the same sounds that are in canonical babling

speech disorder

trouble saying sounds stutter when we speak or have voice problems

phoneme

meaningfully different sounds in a given language

phone

different sounds a language uses

allophone

phones that do not differitate meaning

voice onset time

time between relase of air and voice turning on

source and filter theory

source: vocal fold vibration

filter: vocal tract

negative voice onset time

voiced sounds check this

longer voice onset time

voiceless sounds

dichotic listening task

review infant perceptions study

zone of proximal development

where the child can get with scaffolding

first year baby perceptual abolities

at first can distinguish then cant

categorical perceptions

new sound- baby sucking rate goes up

how gesture development relates to language development

gestures help develop language

critical period

primarily focused on language development

ages: less than 2 years (grammar, syntax)

semantics phonology morphology- all have different critical periods

primitive articulation stage

1-4 months

gooing

marginal babbling

hear the transition between vowel and consontant

canonical babbling

ma ma ma ma

combination of CV

canonical stage

5-10 months

canonical babbling

language disorder

failure to acquire language during typical development