CHYS 2P10 Lecture 5: CHYS2P10 - Lecture #5
18 Jan 2018
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Housecleaning: exam next week, seminars are cancelled that exam week, exam will have ~100 mc questions. What is language: arbitrariness uses symbols that are not related to the concept that they represent (e. g. , hieroglyphics vs. English letters: productivity can produce communications that are unique; can express completely novel ideas. Atypical language development: video 1 203 (s. a. f. ) Syntactic development: syntax rules of grammar, how words are arranged into sentences, word order can play an important role in the meaning of a sentence, negatives children initially attach words of negation to positive sentences. No drink milk. or drink milk no. evolve to drink no milk. then adult way. Syntactic development: relating events within a sentence through the use of conjunctions doesn"t usually appear until around 3 years, e. g. , use and, but, because, while, that, which, most adult grammatical rules are learned by around 5 years. Types of early words children use (50-word vocabulary)
