PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hyponymy And Hypernymy, 18 Months, Oneword
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Victor-never had learned language up until he died at 30. Acquisition of language as opposed to learning language. Language acquisition so automatic that there must be a part of the brain specialized to acquire it-nomchomsky. Language comprehension involves the processing of the following four features: (in order of development, sophistication: phonological (sound, semantic (meaning, syntactic (grammar, pragmatic (context/communication) 6 months infants are repeating sounds they hear (babbling) Dis (not), un, ness, ful (having the quality of) Photo place-but not a photo, it"s made from wood and you use it in your home. Translation-different dialects ex: in north america-to rent in uk-to let, in. Metaphors-say one thing but mean something else ex: i"ve cut you deeply. Rules for putting those meaningful rules or ideas together. Problem is rules are frequently broken-hard for someone who is trying to learn a language. Surface structure-easy to understand, follow a noun, verb, adjective format. Henry is easy to please-object of to please is henry.
