Summary: Talking The Talk Language, Psychology And Science | 9781317627227 | Trevor A Harley

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  • 1 Language

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 4.1 cognition hypothesis

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  • Arguments against cognition hypothesis

    Cognitive impairment does not always entail language impairment, blind children show little difference in linguistic development, 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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