Psychology 2015A/B Lecture Notes - Pharynx, Shap, Wond

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2015A/B
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

A) children with speech and language differences - introduction. Twice as much language growth occurs between the 1st and 3rd years of life than between the 3rd and 4th. Communicative competence: developed with speech and language; knowing how to interact and communicate in various situations and how to interpret what others say and do. Communication: process of exchanging information and ideas between participants. Language: a system of symbols organized into conventional patterns to communicate meaning; language development is structural and hierarchical. Voice: vocalization or sound; not always produced as speech. Three points characterizing speech and language development: there are distinct stages, a lot of creativity involved in learning to formulate sentences, all children acquiring language do so in the same order. Syntax: the rules that govern the grammar of language; formalizes language so that communication is consistent throughout a society: how words are combined to form sentences. Grammar: refers to the rules and the word choices.