Preintentional communication WK 2 Flashcards
Provide reasons why babies are ready for language
-Vision
-Breathe/phonation(vibration of vocal folds)
-Hearing-in-utero
-Imitation
-Neuroplasticity
-Touch/smells
-Cognition (attention/perception /memory)
What do babies specifically attend to
-environmental sounds (specifically human voice)
-Facial expressions
-Speakers gaze
-Visual field
-Tone in voice/volume, inflection
-Speech sounds in own language (Own name/common words)
Describe/define innate abilities
Abilities present in brain at birth
-Not acquired/learned through experience after birth
-Newborn infants possess innate learning mechanism, equips for language acquisition
What is the connection between exposure and innate abilities in babies
posses innate perceptual abilities
-Prepares interaction w/others–>allow development of language
-Must then be exposed to spoken language environment
what are some examples of experiments with infant language perception
-head turn
-Sucking measurement
-EEG- electroencephalogram
-Eye gazing tracking
Describe infant perception from birth to 3mo
-startles to loud sounds
-Quiets/smiles when spoken to
-preference to mother
-Imitates human facial gestures at 2 months
-Turns head to sounds, eyes focus on speaker
-Detects intonational changes in speech patterns
-3mo infants vocal turn-taking in response to sounds from adults
Describe infant perception from 4-6mo
-eyes to sounds
-Responds to tone change
-Recognise difference between human and non-human sounds,
-6mo sensitive to sound difference e.g. p and b
-recognise/imitate some sounds
-Recognise names but confuse their names with similar words
-Tuning into ambient language 4-8mo but lose
Describe infant perception 7mo-1 year
-Enjoy turn-taking games (peekaboo)
-Listens when spoken to
- Recognise words-common items
-Begins to respond to requestions (come here, want more?)
-9-12mo follow direction of adults gaze (joint attention)
-6-12mo choose toy based on adult’s facial expression
-Sign of early development of theory of mind (provides ability to interpret feeling or thoughts)
Describe infant communication at 0-2mo
reflexive stage
-Burping, coughing (vegetative sounds)
-Cry, whinging-differently for different needs (noun)
-Social smiles
Describe infant communication at 1-4mo
control of phonation (vocal fold vibration)
-Cooing alongside/turn taking adult
-True vowel productions (fully resonant nuclei)
- Vocalisations combine vowel-like segment with consonant-lie segment (ooohhh…pp)
-Vocalises excitement/displeasure
-Vocal experimentation and play (louder/softer)
Describe infant communication at 3-8mo
expansion (more specificity)
-Isolated vowel prod. or 2/more vowel “aaa” and “ooo” (move tongue and lips)
-Marginal babbling-consonants and vowel (baba) or isolates consonants (p..p..p..) and vowels (ooh…ooh…)
Describe infant communication at 5-10mo
basic canonical syllables
-same consonant-vowel syllables (canonical babbling) e.g. bababa
-Different consonant-vowel sequences-(variegated babbling) e.g. ba-bi-bu-ta
Describe infant communication at 10-18mo
advanced forms
-Complex syllables such as CV (ub), CVC (bup) and CVCC (toks)
-Multisyllabic strings with intonation or stress
-Jargon
-9-12mo imitate others actions or movements (gestures/words)
Define jargon
syllable series w/ 2 different consonants and vowel with changes to stress and intonation
What is intentionality
to communicate with purpose
-Behaving with goal in mind, taking deliberate communicative actions to reach
