[0:14]The lusty cry with which most babies enter the world is the first in a long series of vocal behaviors, which ever increase in communicative effectiveness as a child grows through infancy into the preschool years.
[0:46]Hello, I'm Alice Sterling Honig. Very young children are hungry for communication. But as with food, they are unable to provide for their own needs. Just as we provide vitamins and calories for their bodies, they need us to provide nurturing, turn-taking talk and responsiveness to their early language. Language is the communication system that empowers humans with the creative ability to speak with and for and to other human beings about any topic or experience. With language, we can ask questions through language exchanges, children learn the rules and vocabularies of their native language in order to put meaning into their life experiences. Many theorists such as Piaget and Vygotsky believe that at birth language and intelligence are separate and they grow independently at first. But by the time of toddlerhood, intelligence and language intertwine and they boost each other's development powerfully. They grow together like the proverbial rose and brier in the old love songs. In this program, we will first look at five basic aspects of language. So we have some common vocabulary about language development. Then we will look at how these are acquired by young children. Finally, we will discuss ways that adults can nurture and nourish early language acquisition. Researchers have analyzed the aspects of language and they use five terms to describe them. Obviously, these terms are interconnected and ultimately dependent upon each other, but we will examine them one by one. Phonology is the study of the sounds of a language. For the first few months of life, infants produce all the sounds of all the languages of the world. But by six months, infants produce only those sounds that belong to their own family's language. Morphemes are the molecules of language, the smallest separate units that create meaning. He knows how to zib. Yesterday, he. Syntax or syntactics is the study of the grammar of a language. Have you seen helicopters also? Yeah. Um you know how they they have on double hat and has your yamy and said aloud. Uh-huh. Semantics is the study of how language conveys meaning. Uh-oh, the track is broken. Pragmatics is the study of how language changes from one social situation to another. Can you take two of them right there? You wash my hands. You're welcome.
