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Language Development. By: Adam and Andrew Gubler. 0-10 months Cooing, babbling, eye contact Hear to learn and see it. At 6 months babies can tell if you are speaking their native tongue Babies can recognize speech sounds of all languages.
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Language Development By: Adam and Andrew Gubler
0-10 months • Cooing, babbling, eye contact • Hear to learn and see it. • At 6 months babies can tell if you are speaking their native tongue • Babies can recognize speech sounds of all languages. • Understand rhythm, syllables, sounds, and cadence of spoken words Prelinguistic Stage
10-18 months • By 10 months the child understands 5-10 Words • Child understands 10 times more than it can speak. • Fis Phenomenon • Overextension • Underextension • Learn about 2 words per week One Word Sentence
18-24 months • Naming Explosion • 50-100 words per month • Cultural differences • Start learning grammar by about 21 months. Two word Sentence
2-3 years old • At 2 years old they know about 500 words • Continue to learn grammar. Multiple Word Sentence
3-5 years old • At three they can correctly order sentences, use plurals, tenses, and articles • Grammar correlates with vocab • Grammar also helps with the understanding of others. More complex grammatical structure
6+ • At six they know about 10000 words • Fast mapping • Learn 20 words per day • More flexible and logical in use of grammar • Use and understand metaphors • Learn formal and informal codes Adult-like
Infants need to be taught • Infants teach themselves • Social impulses foster infant language learning. Hypotheses for Language Development
B.F. Skinner • Language is acquired step by step through association and reinforcement • Parents are expert teachers • Frequent repetition • If children are well taught they become well spoken. • Extensive language exposure • Australian experiment • Need to be talked with Infants need to be taught
Noam Chomsky • Language learning is innate • Language is too complicated to be taught step by step • Universal grammar • The mind can learn any language during childhood • When the caregiver speaks with the child it helps nourish language development, it doesn’t trigger it. Infants teach themselves
Try to communicate because of social aspects. • Like the attention. • The emotional message helps children learn not words • Learn better in person than on video. Social Impulses foster infant language learning
Children under 6 keep languages distinct but in the same activation site in the brain. • Adults have different activation sites • Pronunciation errors don’t effect children • Children under 6 learn only by listening • Children older than 6 learn by listening and can also be assisted by instruction. • Middle childhood is the best time to learn a second language. • After puberty it becomes more difficult to learn a language. • Languages are best learned when connected with the culture. • In order to learn a second language you need to 1) practice speaking the language. 2) Have an internal motivation and 3) have a reason why the language is needed. Bilingualism
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