PSY 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 28: Babbling, Oneworld, Hearing Loss

• School: Drexel University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: Megan L Meyer

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Language structure: three building blocks to create a spoken language: , t phonemes: example : when saying bat, english speakers utter the phonemes, consonant phonemes carry more information than do vowel, morphemes: . Smallest language units that carry meaning: most morphemes combine two or more phonemes, example : bat or gentle . The prefix pre- in pre view or the suffix -ed in adapt ed: grammar: another. System of rules that allows one to communicate with one: forty or so phonemes can be combined to make more than. They recognize verb differences earlier than they utter sentences with nouns and verbs: nature allows a wide range of possible sounds in the babbling. The speech development stage stage where the infant randomly utters different sounds) (1) babbling does not imitate the adult speech. Doggy = look at the dog out there! : by the child"s second birthday, he/she enter the two-word stage (1) they start to utter two-word sentences in telegraphic.