PSYC200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Language Development, Noam Chomsky, Metalinguistic Awareness
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Aphasia: an acquired language disorder in which there is an impairment of a language modality: provide evidence of specialisation for language within the left hemisphere. Expressive (cid:894)broca"s(cid:895) aphasia speech & writing difficult to initiate, non fluent, laboured & halting intonation & stress patterns are deficient language is reduced to disjointed words sentence construction is poor, omitting function words & inflections. Phonology: the organisation of sounds in language basic speech sounds. Semantics: the units of meaning in a language symbols (idiot = id/i/iot. Syntax: the rules of combining words - grammar. Pragmatics: the knowledge of how language is used. Prosody: the sound of speech the melody. The course of language development - born with a preparedness for speech - preference for speech sounds. At about 10 mths can comprehend, but not: produce, approx. Most infants product their first words between 10-15 months. Typically being object names, people and events from everyday life. (car, ma, da)
