COMD 4381 Lecture : Notes
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Production / perception of a particular sound: phonological. Use of the sound as parts of appropriate words/patterns. English phoneme categories than another language"s phoneme categories. These will also be the phonemes that the child tries to produce first: constantly categorizing language input, as you categorize sounds, that will affect the features you are able to hear and distinguish. Objects: stable combinations, including representations of people, pobjects, words referring to people, objects, occurs because of the vocabulary of the language you are learning. Actions/states: states of objects (location, temperature, changes in states, movements, other acts. Transformations: actions cause changes in state. Events: socially organized, sequence of actions/transformations, directed by planning, basic narrative structure. Hierarchical knowledge: organized knowledge of world, includes metalanguage, words are made of sounds, sounds are represented by letters . Acquisition of speech sounds/phonology interacts with all other levels. Assessment ultimately must engage all other levels.
