PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Code-Switching, Metalinguistic Awareness, Text Segmentation
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What can genie tell us about language development: nativist, may have had cognitive delay from birth, critical periods to learning language, empiricist, did have environmental input. A communication system in which words and their written symbols combine in various, regulated ways to produce an infinite number of messages (pg 253) Components of language: phonology, phonemes: the basic unit of sound, smallest sound unit that can change meaning, ~45, morphology. /p/ vs /b: rules for how sounds form words, past tense adds ed, plurals add s", ex. Unhappy un means not so not happy; submarine = 2 morphemes but: semantics. 9 phonemes: meaning of words & parts of words, free and bound morphemes: dog, grammatical combination rules (bound) morphemes: -s, syntax, rules for word combinations, sentence structure, pragmatics, knowledge of how language used to communicate, conversational conventions (ex. Diff vocab + tone w toddlers: social conventions (ex.
