Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in Modules)LanguageSlide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10Animal Thinking and LanguageSlide 12Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in Modules)Module 24Language and ThoughtJames A. McCubbin, PhDClemson UniversityWorth PublishersLanguageLanguageour spoken, written, or gestured works and the way we combine them to communicate meaningPhonemein a spoken language, the smallest distinctive sound unitLanguageWe are all born to recognize speech sounds from all the world’s languages1009080706050403020100Percentage ableto discriminateHindi t’sHindi-speakingadults6-8 months8-10months10-12monthsEnglish-speakingadultsInfants from English-speaking homesLanguageBabbling Stagebeginning at 3 to 4 monthsthe stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household languageOne-Word Stagefrom about age 1 to 2the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in single wordsLanguageTwo-Word Stagebeginning about age 2the stage in speech development during which a child speaks in mostly two-word statementsTelegraphic Speechearly speech stage in which the child speaks like a telegram-–“go car”--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting “auxiliary” wordsLanguageSummary of Language DevelopmentMonth(approximate)Stage410122424+Babbles many speech sounds.Babbling reveals households language.One-word stage.Two-world, telegraphic speech.Language develops rapidly intocomplete sentences.LanguageGenes design the mechanisms for a language, and experience activates them as it modifies the brainLanguageNew language learning gets harder with age1009080706050Native 3-7 8-10 11-15 17-39Percentage correct ongrammar testAge at schoolLanguageLinguistic DeterminismWhorf”s hypothesis that language determines the way we thinkLanguageThe interplay of thought and languageAnimal Thinking and LanguageThe straight-line part of the dance points in the direction of a nectar source, relative to the sunDirection ofnectar sourceAnimal Thinking and LanguageGestured
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