PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Voice-Onset Time, Categorical Perception, Phonological Development
13 Apr 2014
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Chapter 6 - development of language and symbol use. Symbols them to others apart from other species: systems for representing thoughts, feelings, and knowledge and communicating, the creative and flexible use of symbols is the capacity that most sets humans. Language development: by 5 years of age, children have mastered the basic structure of their native language, whether spoken or manually signed. Using language involves: language comprehension: refers to understanding what others say (or sign or write, language production: refers to actually speaking (or signing or writing) to others. The components of language: generativity: using the finite set of words in our vocabulary, we can put together an infinite number of sentences and express an infinite number of ideas. 1: phonology: system of sounds, phonemes: basic units of sound, can change meaning. E. g. , b /a/ t b /i/ t: english contains between 40-45 phonemes. Semantic development: morphemes: the smallest units of speech that are meaningful (e. g. , dog and happy)
