PSY312H5 Lecture 6: Language Development
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Language development: almost all of us develop language this way: Phonological (sound: the smallest component of language, it is pleasurable and stimulating in infants to make sounds (cooing and babbling, in the english language, it is the vowels. Syntactic (grammar: what does what your saying mean, the way words go together these are different among languages. Pragmatic (context/communication: this does not fully develop until between 10 and 13 years of age. Fuzzy set: ex: where would you go in walmart to buy a wastebasket, they mean something, but they can be used to mean something else, translation, metaphors. Pragmatics: this is the most sophisticated level of language what the context is, my what a beautiful day, the troops marched into battle for two hours. What is language: defining language, for of communication, whether spoken, written, or signed, based on system of symbols.
