WEEK 6: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: LEARNING SOUND PATTERNS Nov. 7
Section outline
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SOUNDS, SYMBOLS and PHONOTACTIC CONSTRAINTS
How infants learn by swimming in the "sea of sounds":
Engaging the frontal lobe through joint attention
Recognizing sounds and matching sound clusters to "meanings"
Environmental sounds vs. language sounds
Reading: Learning sound patterns, in Sedivy, ch. 4, pp. 105-119, in particular; pp. 120 if you have no knowledge on phonetics and phonology
Assignment: Web activities in ch. 4
Voluntary but expected of advanced students: Upload your proposal for an independent research project