PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Phoneme, Babbling, Universal Grammar
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Language structure (the building blocks: phonemes smallest sound unit. Could be a letter but not necessarily. Bat and chat have the same number of phonemes. English uses about 40: morphemes smallest meaning units. The smallest unit that carries meaning on its own. A morpheme can also be a phoneme (vice versa) I is both a phoneme and a morpheme: grammar a system of rules. How we understand how to use words, phonemes and morphemes. Research has shown that babbling is mostly universal. *these happen in sequential stages (earlier or later) but in the same trajectory: behaviorists believed we learn language through association. Children can say things that they"ve never heard before: watch: genie. The critical period (pruning) is detrimental in relation to forming understanding and use of grammatical rules. The brain and language: aphasia impairment in language, broca"s area controls language. Tell me what this looks like in someone: wernicke"s area controls language.
