PSYC2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Universal Grammar, Morpheme, 18 Months
2 Apr 2016
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How basic speech sounds are put together to form words. Phoneme: the smallest distinctive sound unit: semantics. The meaning of morphemes, words, and sentences. Morpheme = the smallest unit that carries meaning. It may be the word or a part of a word (such as a prefix). ~100,000 in the english language: grammar, semantics: the rules for ordering words into grammatically- sensible sentences, morphology: the use of grammatical markers (morphemes) indicating number, case, person, gender, tense, etc. Structure of words and a system of rules for combining morphemes (add ed to verbs to make them past tense: pragmatics. How to communicate with and understand others. Rules about structure and sequence of speech sounds. Vocabulary words and word combinations for concepts. Two areas: reception perception and comprehension, production. Ability to discriminate foreign from native language sounds. Kaplan and kaplan"s 4-stage theory: pre-linguistic (babbling) stage. 0-12 months: crying basic, angry, pain.
