SPCH 470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eye Contact, Independent Clause, Dependent Clause
2 Oct 2016
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Review of domains/components: form: articulation, phonology, morphology, syntax, content: semantics (lexicon, use: pragmatics. The rules governing the sound structure of syllables and words. As children are developing phonologically, they are learning that words are made up of sounds (or phonemes: phonemes. Smallest unit of sound that signals a change in meaning. As children develop phonemes, they learn to discriminate between the sounds: minimal pairs. Words that differ by only one phoneme. Ex. mat bat pat: phonological representation: the child"s internal representation of each phoneme in their native language; it"s the neurological imprint of a phoneme that differentiates it from another phoneme. Ex. ts- pots, cats (you can end a word with ts, but you cannot start with it: phonological building blocks. Phonological development begins immediately after birth, but research has shown that discrimination even happens in utero because infants react to their mother"s voice a. i. 1. The frequency of occurrence of the phonemes in the language.
