PSYC20008 Lecture Notes - Fall 2017 Lecture 5 - Steven Pinker, Neuroendocrinology, Amygdala
20 Sep 2018
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Adults who learned a second language at 1 to 3 years of age show the normal pattern of greater left-hemisphere activity in a test of grammatical knowledge. Language development mastery of components: language generativity, semantic development and pragmatic development: language generativity. Phoneme basic unit of sound used to produce language. Phonological development acquisition of k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge a(cid:271)out the sou(cid:374)d s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)s of o(cid:374)e"s own language. Morpheme smallest unit of meaningful sound, usually one or two phonemes: semantic development learning to express meaning in language (includes word learning) Syntax rules for the ways in which words can be combined to make sense. Syntactic development learning the rules for combining words in a given language: pragmatic development acquiring knowledge about how language is used eg rules for conversation. Adults have metalinguistic knowledge (properties of language and language used) that children do not have: the process of language acquisition. Infants are sensitive to any phonetic discrimination in any language.
