PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Language Acquisition Device, Noam Chomsky, Language Development
21 Apr 2013
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Language = well ordered system of rules that each adult member of the language community taskedly (tasedly) comprehends in speaking, listening, and writing. Tasedly = not necessarily know the rules involved, cant be stated. Phoneme = most basic fundamental units of the study of language. Diff languages employ diff number of sounds. Many alphabetical letters can have several alternative phonemes associated. English: 36 phonemes, other languages have 25, or maybe 50: a = ehhhh or ahhh , c = kaaa or ssssss . Morpheme is string of sound that conveys meaning (will have distinct meaning of its own: book , let , booklet . Morphology = study of rules used to combine morphemes with each other. All words in a language consist of more than 1 morphemes tied together. Not all morphemes are words ex: prefixes (pre, re, ex, con) suffixes (tion, est, icly) verb tense markers (-ed, ing)
