1- Welcome

Hello everyone,
My name is shadi ayash
First, i would like to welcome you to my blog
In this blog, i will explain about how did we acquire our first language from birth to adolescence
This will be according to a psycholinguistics point of view.
This blog is for BS students.
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2- Introduction

What is psycholinguistics?
It is the study of the mental processes involved in the production, comprehension and acquisition of language.

There are four stages of speech production:
Crying - Cooing - Babbling - Infant first word.

In the following posts, I will give you a brief about every stage.

3- Crying

 
 Is crying a language?
At an early stage if a child life, crying is part of the nervous system that controls the body functions. Therefor, crying is a reponce to anoxious stimuli triggered by the autonomic nervous system.

What does this mean?
its mean that crying response is innate (godgift). Crying is  natural reaction to the nervous system.

How does crying help?
Crying is a direct preparation for a life time vocal communication. It trains babies to time their breathing patterns. The skill of timed breathing is a sign for successful speech communication for the rest of the baby's life.

Types of crying:
Iconic & Symbolic

# Crying in its initial stage is iconic. In another words, The baby cry's for reasons: hunger, discomfort, Disturbance ...etc. The hunger the baby, the louder is the crying.
However, after the first month or two crying becomes symbolic. The baby doesn't cry because he is hungry or something, he cries to get attention.

# When we are first burn, we are so weak & completely dependent on our caretakers (father & mother) for several years. After weeks of interaction with caretakers, an infant start to coo, expressing satisfaction, comfort and Happiness.
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