Chapter 3 Flashcards
This term refers to infant vocalizations and speech perception. This term implies that sound productions at this level are not entirely linguistic because the child does not produce them to achieve desired effects.
Prelinguistic
The process by which a person selects, organizes, integrates, and interprets sensory stimuli he is receiving.
Perception
Understanding spoken speech
Speech perception
The infants understanding of speech
Infant speech perception
Infants ability to respond to the direction of incoming sound from an early age
Localization
Infants as young as 2 to 7 days turned in the direction of a rattling noise 75% of the time
True
Infants of what age are able to discriminate sound location, fundamental frequency, intensity and duration?
1 to 4 months
Infants have been found to prefer human speech to other noises
True
A child at what age can first recognize his or her mother’s voice?
Three days old
In this method need experimenter presents a repeating speech stimulus. There may be an increase in infant sucking rate as a result of this reinforcing sound stimulus. Once sucking rates decrease due to adaption of the sounds infants are presented with a different sound stimulus which usually increases the sucking rate again.
High-amplitude sucking method
This method exploits the tendency to turn towards a sound source (localization) and reinforces the behavior visually.
Visually reinforce head turned method
In this method they experimenter presents a repeated speech stimulus through loudspeaker. The infant gets adapted to this auditory syllable stimulus and keeps looking at the toy being manipulated. Experimenter then presents a different speech sound stimulus. If the infant promptly turned his or her head toward the speaker when the stimulus is changed this head turn is immediately reinforced by animated toy that is lighted. The plexiglass box holding the toys place in front of the speaker. Different speech stimulus are alternated A few times to see if the infant reliably turns his or her head towards the reinforcing box with the change trials are presented but does not turn when the controlled trials are presented.
Visually reinforced head turn method
Very young infants can be taught to make fine distinctions among speech sounds
True
Infants discrimination of non-native sound contrasts deteriorated as they got older. As infants grow older and begin to pay increasingly greater attention to the surrounding language, their ability to discriminate speech sounds in other languages tends to deteriorate.
True
Automatic responses reflecting the physical state of the infant including cry, coughing, burping, and hiccuping.
Reflexive vocalizations
Voluntary productions including cooing babbling, and playful screaming and yelling.
Non-reflexive vocalizations
Stage:
- Reflexive vocalizations such as crying, saying, coughing, sneezing, and burping predominate.
- Speech like sounds are rare.
- Some non-reflexive vocalizations
Stage one: Phonation stage
-Birth to one month
Stage:
- Sounds that are acoustically similar to back vowels and consonant vowels
- Syllable sequences are primitive
Stage 2: Coo and Goo Stage
-2 to 3 months
Stage:
-This stage is characterized as a period of vocal play where the child games better control of the laryngeal and articulatory mechanisms
- Squeals, growls, yells, raspberries
- Marginal babbling appears
Stage 3: Exploration/Expansion Stage
-4 to 6 months
Stage:
- The reduplicated babbling stage
- The CV syllables become longer at this point and maybe reduplicated so that the syllable sequences such as (baba) (kaka) and (tata) result.
- For parents, CV reduplicated syllables that resemble (mama) and (dada) are prime importance for obvious reasons.
Stage 4: Canonical Babbling Stage
- 7 to 9 months
- Reduplicated babbling stage
Stage:
-The infant phonetic repertoire, although limited, may consist of stops, nasals, glides, and the lax vowels /E/
/I/ /^/
Stage 4: Canonical Babbling Stage
-7 to 9 months
Stage:
-The production of back sounds ( velars) declined sharply, while production of front sounds increases (alveolars and bilabials)
Stage 4: Canonical Babbling Stage
-7 to 9 months
Stage:
-The infant in the variegated babbling stage combines a variety of CV sequences resulting in productions like (madaga), (putika), (tikadi).
Stage 5: Variegated Babbling Stage
-10 months to about the first year
Stage:
-The infants connected strings of variegated syllable sequences may resemble real statements, questions, and exclamations; However, the strings do not contain real words.
Stage 5: Variegated Babbling Stage
-10 months to about the first year
How long do most children continue to babble after the appearance of the first true word?
3 to 4 months
When does babbling begin?
6 to 7 months old