First Language Acquisition

Question 1

Where does language acquisition process first start?

Answer 1

Mother’s womb

Question 2

What happens when a baby is 24 weeks in the womb?

Answer 2

Develops ears to hear mothers heartbeat and outside world. The fetus becomes familiar with parents voices

Question 3

T or F: Babies prefer human voice over any other sound

Answer 3

T

Question 4

T or F: Babies come out ready to communicate. How?

Answer 4

T through crying and sulking and laughing

Question 5

Findings in the pacifier frequency - new language vs nakasanayang language experiment

Answer 5

New language: weak response; Nakasanayang language: high response

Conclusion: Human language is learnt in the woomb; Babies prefer the language used by parents. ++ Babies can identify new language

Question 6

Findings in Experiment 2: Distinguishing different parts of speech

Answer 6

Prepositions (on, in, etc.: one syllable words): low response

Nouns (longer words): high response

Question 7

What happens at 3 months old? (LEEFG)

Answer 7

• larynx drops
• engages with communication
• exchange of words/sounds
• Facial expression, gaze of eyes

Question 8

Findings in Experiment 3: Facial Expressions

Answer 8

CONCLU: Babies are attuned to both voice and face and know that they should match

• Babies would try to communicate w/ sounds and becomes upset when mom drops face
• upside down face of mom: not recognized by baby and does not communicate with it
• baby is confused when the voice and face don’t match (happy face: sad voice)

Question 9

T or F: Eyes DO NOT play a vital role to interaction. Babies DO NOT try to gain the mom’s attention when eyes are not on him/her

Answer 9

F!!: Babies Try to gain attention when their mom does not make eye contact with them

Question 10

T or F: Babies are NOT capable of differentiating difficult/similar sounds

Answer 10

Partly False: At 6 months, baby still recognizes all sounds BUT At 10 months, Baby stop becoming a universal listener = can no longer differentiate difficult sounds

Question 11

Findings for Mandarin Experience Experiment

Answer 11

• Babies at 9-10 months were able to differentiate between 2 languages
  CONCLU: Babies are able to absorb new languages at this age

Question 12

What do you call the sing-song high pitch words that help the baby understand a language

Answer 12

Motherese/Fatherese

Question 13

___ + ____ = Communication

Answer 13

Nature + Nurture = Communication

Question 14

After the age of 1, babies can articulate complete words T or F

Answer 14

T

Question 14

Within the first 18 months babies pick up an active vocabulary of 50-100 words : T or F

Answer 14

T

Question 15

Explain mouth -sound mapping

Answer 15

As the baby plays with the sound, she also listens to what she’s saying

Question 15

Word categories that babies over a year old are very familiar with

Answer 15

Food and body parts

Question 15

T or F: All babies in All countries babble the same way in the beginning, mama baba dada

Answer 15

tRUTH - 23:33 of the docu

Question 16

two key “tions” in learning a language

Answer 16

Repetition & Imitation

Question 17

Babies recognize that communication is more than just sounds and words but also ____

Answer 17

Gestures

Question 18

When does pointing gesture begin

Answer 18

during the crawling stage

Question 19

Pointing alone can help babies learn new words but HOW?

Answer 19

Baby has to follow both point and gaze

Question 20

Speech movement develops faster than motion: T or F

Answer 20

F: Motion movement develops faster than speech so it’s easier to sign first over talking

Question 21

T OR F: Shape is crucial for learning names to things. shape> color,size, etc.

Answer 21

T

Question 22

By 2 years old, humans use …

Answer 22

300 words and can understand 1000 words