Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bruton'S Tyrosine Kinase, Nicaraguan Sign Language, Heritability
27 Feb 2017
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Most children go from not talking at all before the 1st year to spealing in complex sentences by age 3. Kids know 14 000 words by age 6. Each component has its own developmental story: phonology. Phonemes: smallest unit of sound that creates differences in meaning (hat versus cat versus cot: semantics. Morphemes: smallest grammatical units of language that convey. Deals with the ordering of language (grammar); rules for putting words together to create meaning. Deals with the intended meaning of language; goes beyond literal meaning meaning (eg. ed, s, ing) (cid:498)the dog chased the black cat(cid:499) (cid:523)in french? (cid:524) (cid:498)) like your shoes(cid:499) (cid:498)fantastic winter we"ve been having(cid:499: syntax, pragmatics skills. Develops over many years (eg. sarcasm, conversational norms, narrative. Prelinguistic (first year: by 10 months, lose sensitivity to phonemic distinctions in other languages (perceptual narrowing, early vocalizations (cooing, squealing)
