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Professor Greg Francis 8/15/12Language developmentLanguagePSY 200InstinctiveGreg Francis your brain is wired to work with grammars, words,phrasesLecture 31Learning you do have to learn some specifics for yourWhen should you learn a foreignlanguage?native tongue rules wordsPurdue UniversityPurdue UniversityLearningBabies and phonemesWhat is learned?How does a child learn?How much about language does a childknow?Infants have linguistic skills as soon as theyare born babies are interested in new things attach a tape player to a pacifierWhen have you mastered language? each suck causes the player to play a soundHow do you learn a second language?Repetition of the same sound leads toboredom and fewer sucksWhat do babies do? ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba,Purdue UniversityPurdue UniversityBabies and phonemesBabies and phonemesWhen the syllable changes babies suck more often ba, ba, …, pa, pa, pa, pa, pa,…Moreover, they hear things the way adults do you can change the pronunciation (timing) of ba and still hear it asba (CogLab data) babies hear it the same wayBA"PA"Identification taskSame/different taskPurdue UniversityPurdue UniversityPSY 200: Intro. to Cognitive Psychology 1