PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Joint Attention, Baby Talk, Active Child
29 Mar 2016
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Language characteristics - flexible, productive and inventive (only 45 sounds in english language but can combine to create trillions of sentences etc. ) Phonology: study of phonemes which are the basic sounds of language rules exist for combining phonemes ex. No sr, bn, or ng, at being of a word. Morphemes - most basic units of sounds, free or bound. Syntax: grammar and rules of how words are combined. Pragmatics: practical aspects of language, how to use. Metalinguistic language: knowledge of language and its properties. Nonverbal signals: signals that give meaning to spoken words ex. Before language: the prelinguistic period (10-13 months): Perceptual narrowing - better at differentiating phonemes than adults until 7 months at. High pitch endings excite interest & low pitch ending soothes them. Like to hear people with the same prosody as them. Figuring out which are the separate words in a sentence. When something is stressed more they believe it is the start of the word.
