PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Vocal Folds, Fast Mapping, Vocal Tract
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Symbols: systems for represening our thoughts, feelings, and knowledge and for communicaing them to other people. Our ability to use symbols vastly expands our cogniive and communicaive power. Language comprehension: understanding what others say (or write or sign) Language producion: speaking (or wriing or signing) to others. Generaivity: refers to the idea that through the use of the inite set of words in our vocabulary, we can put together an ininite number of sentences and express an ininite number of ideas. Phonological development: the acquisiion of knowledge about the sound system of a language: phonemes: the elementary units of meaningful sound used to produce languages, the irst step in children"s language learning. Semanic development: the learning of the system for expressing meaning in a language, including word meaning: morphemes: the smallest units of meaning in a language, composed of one or more phonemes, second component in language acquisiion.
