Language

Question 1

Hearing developed when?

Answer 1

fully developed 7 months into conception

Question 2

Synaptic Pruning

Answer 2

rapid development in complex systems but gets “pruned” by as much as 50%. by puberty; prunes unused synapses; strong environmental influence

Question 3

Language Acquisition Device

Answer 3

innate mechanism for learning language; children everywhere seem to learn language in a fixed sequence

Question 4

Language acquisition

Answer 4

“learning how to communicate”

Question 5

Order of language acquisition

Question 6

Cooing

Answer 6

production of vowel like sounds

Question 7

Babbling

Answer 7

combining consonants with vowels (4-6 months)

Question 8

Telegraphic speech

Answer 8

2 word phrases (18 months)

Question 9

Vocabulary explosion

Answer 9

2-3 yr old