- over 7000 languages
- 2 year olds tend to start speaking - listen for two years, listening in the womb
- first words - mumma, dada
- human language for collaboration - food, hunting
- could have been leant via song - alphabet
- fox p2 - medical research- part of dna - incharge of language
- a window or language development which closes around puberty
- Dr deb roy - recored his child for three years - tracked the pronounciation of 'water' over 7 months
- Stephen pinker - children are born with the ability to speak as they 'make up' words to replace the correct ones
- jean berko gleason developed the 'WUG' test (1955) - strong evidence born to speak - 'this is a Wug, now there are two '...'
- parents need to provide context, different opportunities to speak in different contexts
- the childs semantic awarenesses outstrips their phonological ability highlighted by deb roy
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Stephen Fry : Planet word - origins of language
Tuesday, 20 September 2016
child language devlopment
Theory:
- Deb Roy set up his house as a lad to record his childs language until he was three
- Dr Kathy Price - key elements in the brain that have language use - born with it?
- Noam Chomsky (godfather of linguistics)
- despite decades of research, how we learnt to talk remains a mystery
- Fox p2 is innate as its in the genes
- parents simplify their language to suit the child (as they develop sentences so do the parents) (convergence)
- care giver language
- all animals would have the ability to talk
- picking up sounds whilst in the womb - recognise mums voice/tone
- innate ability for language - born with the ability to speak
- L.A.D - language acquisition device
- we all have blueprints to language but need to be exposed to it early on
- children learnt to speak with minimal effort
Thursday, 15 September 2016
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