PSYC 2500 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Phrase Structure Rules, Noun Phrase, Rico (Dog)
6 Mar 2017
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Symbols are systems for representing out thoughts, feelings and knowledge and for communicating them to other people. Language development: language use requires comprehension, which refers to understanding what others say (or sign or write), and production, which refers to actually speaking (or signing or writing). Comprehension, with regard to language, is understanding what others say, sign or write. Production, with regard to language, speaking, writing or signing to others. Generativity refers to the idea that through the use of the finite set of words and morphemes in humans" vocabulary, we can put together an infinite number of sentences and express an infinite number of ideas. Phonemes are the elementary units of meaningful sound used to produce languages. English uses 45 of the 200 sounds found across the worlds languages: the first step in children"s language learning is phonological development, the acquisition of knowledge about the sound system of a language.
