Lecture 9 Conceptual Development: Language Development

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Who is an authority on Lang Dev?

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Steven Pinker

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Children are wired for language (steven pinker =Languageis a species-specificbehavior)

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the underlying logic that all languages have, regardless of whether your parents speak a different lang to the one you grew up with.

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What are the language distinctions?

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Language ComprehensionUnderstandingwhat others are saying

Language ProductionActualspeaking•

LanguageComprehension precedes Language Production

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What are the 4 key components to language development?

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PhonologicalDevelopment - phonemes (44)

SemanticDevelopment - morphemes

SyntacticDevelopment - grammar

Pragmatic development - say please

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How do kids use language generativity?

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They can create new sentences they have not heard before, using the 'rules' that they have learnt

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Adults have different sense of humour to kids

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Adultshave metalinguistic knowledge, knowledge about the properties of languageand language use, that children do not have.

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What was the behaviourist approach to lang devel? 1940s- 1950s, 60s

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From associations

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What challenged behaviourist thoughts?

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study of bilingual children

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What is the critical period hypothesis?

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Kids 5 - puberty - best time for language development

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What evidence supports this theory?

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Lang deprivation

Brain damage (kids vs adults = aphasia)

Bilingual

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What happens in the brain when you learn a second language?

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More brain activity when get older

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Babies can discriminate "pa" and
"ba" , adults cannot do this?

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Very sensitive phoneme discrimination innate..

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Adults can only hear these discriminations in their own language.

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•Japanese babies can hear distinctionbetween /r/ and /l/, even though Japanese adults cannot (Eimas,1985).

•English-speaking babies can hear contrasts relevant inlanguages like Czech and Hindi that English speaking adults cannot (Werker& Tees, 1984).

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Babies particularly sensitive to mother's voice

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memories from in the womb

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Some questions referring to language development.

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A. The Components of Language?

B. What is Required for Language?

C. The Process of Language Acquisition?

D. Theoretical Issues in Language Development?