Summary: Talking The Talk Language, Psychology And Science | 9781317627227 | Trevor A Harley
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1 Language
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1.2 Origin of language
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What theories about the origin of language are there?
Bow wow, heave ho, sing song, eureka!, hand gestures -
What physical features do we use to study the origin of language?
Larynx, articulatory apparatus, Broca's area, FOXP2 gene -
1.4 Models and theories
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Characteristics of a good model
Falsifiable, involves concepts from outside the domain -
3 Children
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3.1 Babbling
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Arguments against the continuity hypothesis
Sometimes children babble and sometimes they might speak, parents encourage the production of every sound, children don't pronounce consonant clusters -
3.2 Speech segmentation
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How do children segment speech?
Using statistical regularities -
What regularities might the child use?
Uncommon sounds combination (mp), sounds after a high-frequency word, frequent suffixes -
3.3 Learning words
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Which two groups acquire what words first?
Referential group (objects first), expressive group (people and feelings first) -
Reasons for the mapping problem
Children hear a lot of words while looking at objects that could entail incorrect associations. Adults might be referring to a part of an object when naming it instead of the whole (and the other way around) -
4 Thought
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4.1 cognition hypothesis
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Arguments against cognition hypothesis
Cognitiveimpairment does not always entail languageimpairment , blind children show little difference in linguisticdevelopment, children acquire language before important cognitive development -
Piagets cognitive stages
Sensorimotor period, pre-operational stage, concrete operational stage, functional operational stage
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