PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Semantic Network, Close Vowel, Hyponymy And Hypernymy
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It is one of the first schemas we learned, can"t unlearn. If we are exposed to language, you absorb it. If lang is not acquired in childhood, will not be acquired. If you learn after 12, you have an accent for that second language. Approximately 17% of canadians speak more than one language. When people experience amnesia, they don"t forget lang (retrograde amnesia): selective mutism: won"t speak. Basic c & v. c are hard sounds. V are soft sounds such as a, e, i, o, u. You see infants making cooing sounds, basic lang. Semantic (meaning): the first word that baby utters that have meaning is. Putting the vowels and consonants together for meaning. Syntactic (grammar): usually comes in late infancy and toddler hood. Pragmatic (context/communication): most sophisticated form of lang. This comes after toddler hood, and some in later childhood. If you don"t get the sarcasm, that"s a disorder-aspergers syndrome. In english language, we have suffix and prefix.
