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LANGUAGE COMPONENTS

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PRAGMATICS
PHONOLOGY & MORPHOLOGY
SYNTAX
SEMANTICS

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LANGUAGE ORIGINS

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  • 7000+ worldwide languages
  • ROUSSEAU; emotional
  • KANT; rational
  • WITTENGENSTEIN; philosophy as language study
  • DARWIN; music (ie. monkeys howling in harmony); continuity VS discontinuity hypotheses
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HUMAN LANGUAGE FACTORS

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COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
SYMBOLIC RULE-GOVERNED SYSTEM
PRODUCTIVE

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COMMUNICATIOM SYSTEM

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  • primary

- not unique to humans (ie. bees/lions/dolphins)

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SYMBOLIC RULE-GOVERNED SYSTEM

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  • abstract/productive
  • enable speakers to produce/comprehend wide range of utterances
  • parts of language represent meaning (ie. “ed” suffix implies past tense)
  • “bird” = arbitrary BUT refers to avian creatures
  • each language is constrained by unique rules
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PRODUCTIVE

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  • finite units (sounds/words) produce infinite utterances

- not all possibilities are useful; some are abstract/hypotheticals (ie. “why does the amused jelly win the iron?”)

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PRAGMATICS

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  • cognitive/social skills enabling effective communication (ie. turn taking/convo initiation/dialogue maintenance/faulty communication repair)
  • essential: ie. DO TAKE A SEAT
    LITERAL M: Take a chair somewhere.
    LITERAL R: Remove chair.
    PRAG M: Please sit down.
    PRAG R: Sit on the indicated chair.
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PHONOLOGY & MORPHOLOGY

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  • speech sounds/combinations to words/utterances
  • basic units:
    MORPHEME (MEANING) = language
    PHONEME (NON-MEANING)
  • speech (“ba” “ba” = habituation; “pa” = attention)
  • 1m babies discriminate; 12m discriminate own language but not others (become native listener)
  • adults struggle
  • babies cannot tell difference between “ba” & “ba”
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FACILITATING SEGMENTATION

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  • infant-directed speech (motherese/parentese) from primary caregiver
  • higher/exaggerated pitch
  • rhythmic/slower
  • short, perfectly grammatical sentences
  • concrete NOT abstract
  • here/now; running commentary for the present
  • careful attention paid to child’s actions
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FLUENT SPEECH EXTRACTION

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  • difficult to tell where one word ends and another begins as natives don’t include pauses
  • children are language detectives
  • cues include:
    SOUND ORGANISATION
    STATISTICAL LEARNING
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SOUND ORGANISATION

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  • 7.5m english infants
  • stressed syllables = new words (ie. candle VS intend)
  • sensitive to rhyme/alliteration
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STATISTICAL LEARNING

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  • 4.5m; pick up patterns/regularities; respond to name sound pattern opposed to other names
  • 6m = mummy/daddy response
  • words heard in several dif contexts recognised (ie. Jodie, Jodie’s sock, etc.)
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PRESPEECH DEVELOPMENT PERIOD (B-1Y)

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  • 1y (some earlier; some 1.5) = 1st meaningful word
    JUSCZYK (2002)
  • infants acquire huge knowledge about nature/organisation of native tongue well before 1st meaningful word
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TRANSNATAL LEARNING

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PRENATAL SPEECH DETECTION
- newborn infants show preferences based on fetal heard sounds (ie. heartbeat)
EARLY INFANCY LANGUAGE PREFERENCE
- first few days after birth infants prefer to listen to mother tongue
- MAY et al (2011)

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5 STAGES OF BABBLING

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  1. 0-2M
    - reflexive vocalisations (ie. crying/sneezing/burping)
    - directly related to physical state
  2. 2-4M
    - cooing/laughing
    - combining sounds
    - happy state
    - reciprocal w/parent
  3. 6-10M
    - canonical babbling
    - combos sound like words
    - no evidenced meaning
    - uniformity of age period/range of sounds (ROTHENGANGER (2003))
    - deaf/hearing kids of deaf parents babble
  4. +10M
    - modulated babbling
    - final period overlapping meaningful speech
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LC: SYNTAX

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  • the way words are put together for meaningful utterances
  • in English, word order = important grammatical component
  • acquisition follows predictable pattern (10-18M = first words)
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THE 1-WORD STAGE

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  • 10-18M
  • holophrastic/syncretic speech period
  • thoughts represented via one word
  • ie. “doggie” = “I want my dog”
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CULTURAL SYNTAX DIFFERENCES (EXAMPLES)

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TARDIF et al (2008)
- early words:
ENGLISH = people based; object nouns; animals/sounds
CANTONESE = people based; verbs; rare animals

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THE 2-WORD STAGE

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  • 18-24M
  • non-random pairs (ie. “kick” ball)
  • salient/high-meaning; verbs/adjectives
  • mixed order regardless of reality (ie. “lick doggie” = “doggie lick”)
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CHARACTERISTICS OF EARLY SPEECH

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  • telegraphic speech = semantically rich but grammatically sparse
  • named by ROGER BROWN; early child language investigator
  • utterances express essential meaning but ignore unnecessary grammar; compared to texting?
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24-36M: WHAT’S DEVELOPED?

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  • utterances = longer/more complex
  • use of verb endings (ie. “ed” signifying past)
  • model auxiliary (“will”)
  • conjunctions (“and”/”so”)
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OVERREGULARISATION ERRORS

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PAST TENSE 
- "thinked" not thought
- "goed" not went
PLURAL 
- "mans"/"mouses"
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CREATIVE OVERGENERALISATIONS

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  • nouns = verbs (ie. “why is it weathering?”)

- used w/novel words; follow known rules strictly

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SEMANTICS

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  • words/aspects of them represent meanings

- these units are symbolic as they refer to things other than themselves

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COMPREHENSION
- meaning is attached to words early on TICOFF & JUSZCZYK (1999) - 6ms given video of parents; looked more at correct parent depending on word heard (ie. "mummy" = mother)
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SEMANTIC ERRORS
KUCZAJ (2003) - due to huge possible interpretations that children may make of a word's meaning, it's unsurprising that some initial guesses are incorrect - can be: OVEREXTENSION = bird/plane/kites/falling leaves UNDEREXTENTION = ONLY rubber ducks, no others
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VOCAB DEVELOPMENT SPEED
- kids construct vocab of 14k words by 6y despite its complexity, meaning aprox. 9 words p/d
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SEMANTIC CONSTRAINT
- whole object constraint - "elephant" = whole animal, not parts - mutual exclusivity; nothing else is an elephant/elephant is not known as anything else
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FOUR THEORETICAL STANCES
BARRETT (1999) - NATIVISIM (NATURE) - innateness hypothesis - innate info processing dispositions - EMPIRICISIM (NURTURE) - learned language - develops much as other cognitive abilities do
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NATIVISIM (NATURE)
MARATOS (1999) - product of evolution/natural selection and pure endogenous processes internal to organism - species-specific; universal in humans - inherited from parents; present in newborns - results from genome/typical species environment interaction
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NATIVIST 1
- some aspects of development are dependent on innate capacities/knowledge (ie. CHOMSKY/PINKER) - most extreme nativism; info processing skills specific to language acquisition and knowledge of language aspects are generational via genes
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NATIVIST 2
- language development is strongly influenced by innate info processing dispositions (KUCZAJ) BUT doesn't assume birth w/innate language knowledge (ie. innate discrimination of phenomes specific to learned language) - rather, a number of innate processing dispositions/abilities (also applicable for non-linguistic development) = important to acquisition
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EMPIRICISM (NURTURE)
1. language experience is vital | 2. development via experience in similar cognitive ability fashion; nothing special about language
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EMPIRICIAL 1
- children acquire language specific concepts/representations due to language experience rather than innate specification
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EMPIRICAL 2
- children acquire language due to general abilities that play role in general cognitive development (ie. ToM) CHOMSKY - universal grammar; s/d structures - language needs to relate s/d structures - environment = only s, so d = innate - kids hear complex/ungrammatical sentences (poverty of stimulus/Plato's problem) w/little grammatical feedback yet acquisition is quick/easy
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NATIVISM: +
- phonemic discrimination - over-regularisations - creative over-regularisations - applied rules
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MODI EXPERIMENT
AKHTAR, CARPENTER & TOMASELLO (1996) - objects given to kids but not named; experimenter leaves; objects in box and one added; experimenter returns and acts excited about a "modi" - when asked to hand over the modi, kids are more likely to give the new item - kids guess people's intentions to understand the meaning of a new word; you need a ToM
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MODI EXPERIMENT (EXPLAINED)
- in order to see new item = modi, kids must know: - the experimenter was referring to it - people get excited about new things - modi = new item despite none of the other items being named - OVERALL, guess experimenter's intentions
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META-ANALYSIS OF HERITABILITY ESTIMATES
ANDREOLA et al (2020) - focussed on neurocognitive components: general reading (comprehension); letter-word knowledge; rapid automatized naming; phonological decoding/awareness; spelling/language - 49 articles; 23 cohorts; 38, 670 pps; 15, 990 MZ; 22, 680 DZ; 4.1y-18.5y - genetic/non-shared environmental factors explained most variance in domains
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THE TWIN MODEL
- MZ/DZ twins used; difs used to parse phenotypic trait variance into genetic/environmental components - genetic influences implied if MZ correlation > DZ
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META-ANALYSIS OF PARENTING/LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
MADIGAN et al (2019) - does sensitive-responsive parenting/warmth affect child language? - 32 studies; sample size 9-1026; median = 142; 33.5m (range = 12-71m); mean boys = 51.1% - parental warmth/sensitive responsiveness to child language association = STATSIG - language development is fundamental for school readiness/comprehension/academic achievement/occupational outcomes - parental behaviour influences child language development; modifiable factor targeted for interventions - limits = observational only, so findings = correlational only; needs controls (RCTs)

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