01:830:331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9.1: Toothpaste, Pragmatics
1 Apr 2017
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Languages are expressed through speech, writing and gestures. Spoken languages usually involve 4 distinct but related elements: phonology: sounds of a language. About 200 different sounds are used in all known spoken language. All the different words in english are constructed from about 45 of them: semantics: study of words and their meanings, syntax: rules that specify how words are combined to form sentences. Ex: one simple rule specifies that a noun followed by a verb (e. g. dog barks, ball roles: pragmatics: the communicative functions of language and the rules that lead to effective communication. Newborns hear remarkably well newborns also prefer to listen to speech over comparably complex non-speech sounds. Phonemes: unique sounds that can be joined to create words; the basic building blocks of language. Infants can distinguish most of these sounds by early as 1 month after birth.
