W5D1 Flashcards
(21 cards)
What are morphemes?
The smallest unit of meaning.
How do children figure out word segmentation?
Use stress patterns of language and statistical learning.
What does statistical learning mean?
How likely each syllable is to follow the previous one.
What were the results of the violation of expectations test with sounds?
Infants looked longer at non-words than the “rea”l words.
Infants are __________ to statistical regularities in the visual world too.
sensitive
By what point do babies already know common nouns?
6 months
Around what point do toddlers’ language explode?
18-24 months
What did the koba experiment show?
Children learn words after even just one exposure and can remember it over one week, and one month later.
What’s whole object bias?
Children assume the word refers to the whole object and not part, action or property.
What did the mutual exclusivity test show?
Infants infer what a new word means by ruling out objects they already know.
What is syntactic bootstrapping?
A strategy in which children use the grammatical structure of whole sentences to figure out meaning.
What was the conclusion from the sibbing syntactic bootstrapping test?
Syntactic form of a word can help children figure out what the word refers to.
What do pragmatics refer to?
Understanding conventions & knowledge of how language is used.
Do bilinguals have a language delay?
No, same vocabulary size, but divided across the 2 languages.
Native speaking judges rated people who had acquired Swedish earlier in life as sounding ____________
More native-like.
Does bilingualism improve executive function?
Evidence is mixed. But there is no detriment to learning two languages.
What was the measure in the violation of expectations test?
How long do infants keep looking at the speaker (which makes the sound keep playing)?
By what age do babies already know some common nouns? How do we know this?
6 months; they’ll look toward the object you label.
In regards to shape bias, which one will infants think is a different object? The shape, texture, or size change?
Shape.
Bilingual children create two different _________ at the same time.
Lexicons
Learning in each language can be
faster or slower, depending on:
- Amount of input
- Household composition, societal
factors
