Language Development PART 1 (LECTURE 8)

Question 1

What is special about human language? IT requires both (2)

Answer 1

1. Comprehension abilities (understanding)
2. Production abilities (Creating)

Question 2

Generativity

Answer 2

Finite number of parts, infinite possibilities for combination and expression

Question 3

Symbol system

Answer 3

Allows us to represent and communicate ideas and feelings to others

Question 4

Case study of language: Nicaragua 1970, before they had no deaf community but when the deaf children were brought together in one school for the first time

Answer 4

They created their own language!

Question 5

What is required for language?

Answer 5

1. Having a (growing human brain)
2. Having a human community

Question 6

Language processing is ______ in the brain, with _____ increasing over development

Answer 6

Localized!

Question 7

Having a human brain is

species specific as in:
species universal as in

Answer 7

1. Only humans acquire language in the course of typical development
2. In typical development all humans acquire language

Question 8

Having a growing human brain means that we have a _____ ______ of learning language

Answer 8

Sensitive period

Question 9

Sensitive period

Answer 9

Neural circuitry supporting language learning operates better in early development

Question 10

Early language development depends upon ______ to language

Answer 10

Exposure!

Question 11

Newborns show preference for listening to ______ over other sounds

Answer 11

Speech

Question 12

Infant-directed speech (IDS)

Answer 12

Exaggerated style of speech we use when speaking to language learnings e.g. “baby talk”

Question 13

IDS has pitch patterns, which is

Answer 13

Sweeping changes between high and low pitch

Question 14

IDS has hyperarticulation which is

Answer 14

Expanded acoustic distance between vowels that helps learners tell differences between words