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Topic: Language Development: The What Lecture
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Classmate 1. (100 words)
Haley
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this week for discussion what i found most interesting was language development. I find babies so fascinating, watching a baby go from a newborn to 3 or 4 years old is amazing to watch. you see them go from just a tiny body that can’t do much to a crazy little kid who does not stop talking or running. my favorite part of my baby cousin growing up was months 6 to about 15. Hearing him babble and try and get words out was the cutest thing ever. On the other side of the spectrum i have another baby cousin who is almost 2 years old and not really speaking at all, he babbles just a little bit but no real words have come out. No one really has said anything about him not really speaking so maybe this is not abnormal but I thought it was a little concerning. He lives in a house that has a lot of aggression so maybe he is scared to talk, just a theory. Baby’s become their surroundings and the people that raise them obviously have a huge role in that. If a parent is not trying to help the baby grow and learn things then that baby will struggle to learn and be delayed.
Classmate 2 (100 words)
Keith
The topic that most caught my eye in Module 7 was statistical learning. We learned that this process describes how a baby picks up information from the environment and detects patterns. I found a study online that applies this idea to learning language. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8078161/. In this study researchers found that infants “exploit statistical regularities in linguistic input to identify and learn a range of linguistic structures, ranging from the sounds of language to aspects of grammatical structure.” I think what this quote means is that language is very repetitive and infants use that repetitive nature as a means to understand how language works and the boundaries of language. They also notice the constant volume and inflection we probably use when we talk. So that, they understand not to start a sentence in whisper and end it in a yell. Another interesting thing was how babies can tell the difference between spoken words. When we read a sentence in a book, we can see the spaces between the words and know that they are different words. But when you speak, there is no real way to separate the words. Researchers found that “syllables that are part of the same words tend to co-occur together more reliably than syllables that span word boundaries.” This means an infant’s brain is a lot smarter than I ever thought it was.
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