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INFANT COMMUNICATION. I. DEVELOPMENT IN RELATED DOMAINS**. ***For the exam: Infant development milestones in McLaughlin pp. 175-177—lecture notes only will be on exam. A. Cognitive Developments. Cognitive developments (contd.). B. Social Developments. C. Motor Developments.
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I. DEVELOPMENT IN RELATED DOMAINS** • ***For the exam: Infant development milestones in McLaughlin pp. 175-177—lecture notes only will be on exam
II. GENERAL PRECURSORS TO LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT** • Ability to engage in reciprocal interactions, routines, and general exchanges with others • Ability to recognize and attend to environmental change • Awareness that she can be an agent of change in her own environment
As an example of reciprocal interactions… • Talking twin boys official video #2
Harrison, L.J., & McLeod, S. (2010). Risk and protective factors associated with speech and language impairment… Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53, 508-529.
III. DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES OF INFANT SPEECH** • (TEST 1: please know chart at the top of page 182) • A. Birth-4 weeks: Vegetative sounds like burps, cries • B. 1-4 months: Cooing—vowels that sound like /u/--often accompanied by /k/ and /g/-type sounds (velars). Cooing usually happens in pleasurable face-face interactions with caregivers
During babbling…** • The most common sounds are the front and middle sounds • By 1 year of age, most American babies use: /h, d, b, m, t, g, w, n, k/
**E. 8-12 months—echolalia(not like in autism) This is the baby’s relatively immediate reproduction of speech heard in the immediate environment • F. 9-12 months—jargon. This consists of strings of syllables produced with stress and intonation that sound like real speech.
Youtube example of jargon • Baby Talk bla bla bla
For test one, do not worry about:** • McLaughlin pages 186 (where it begins Babbling: Discontinuity vs. Continuity) to the bottom of page 188) • I am not interested in this section; it won’t be asked.
IV. INFANT AND CAREGIVER COMMUNICATION: RESEARCH DESIGNS** • In longitudinal research, observe same babies over extended period of time • In cross-sectional research, simultaneously observe groups of babies who are different ages • For example, in October, 2012, they might observe ten 8-month olds, ten 9-month olds, and ten 10-month olds.
V. PRELINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION** • A. Perlocutionary Stage (0-6 months) • Caregivers infer messages--impose communicative significance on babies’ behaviors such as vocal sounds, cries, and smiles.
When babies cry…** • There is stimulation of laryngeal and oral functions • Crying alerts caregivers to the baby’s needs • Babies begin to understand cause-effect relationships—they cry (cause), and there is an effect (someone comes to meet their needs)
There are 2 different kinds of smiles:** • Reflexive smiles result from internal physiological stimuli • They occur primarily during sleep • Social smiles occur in response to another person
Caregivers’ Communication (Please know the chart at the top of p. 199)** • On p. 198, McLaughlin discusses baby talk/motherese/parentese. I will call it motherese. • Motherese has a number of characteristics: high pitch, more pauses, slower rate, simpler utterances, and others. • Babies seem to prefer motherese.
Youtube • Cute Baby Playing Pat A Cake - 8 months old - Londyn
B. Illocutionary Stage (6-12 months)** • The baby’s behavior is consciously directed toward influencing other people to act on some object (e.g., the baby points at a balloon)
Halliday classified communicative functions of this stage:** Personal—the baby expresses a sense of herself and her personal feelings • Regulatory—baby is trying to obtain a particular type of interaction (e.g., being picked up, getting fed, trying to get a toy)
Babies also often use** • Phonetically consistent forms • These are not attempts at real words • They are reliably associated with certain situations • For example, when the family dog comes in, the baby may say “eebye”
VI. EMERGENT LITERACY** • Babies can be introduced to books! • McLaughlin discusses reading beginning at 5-6 months of age • I began on day one
VII. CULTURAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC DIFFERENCES** Caregivers from different cultures interact with infants in a variety of ways.