HDFS 2303 Lecture 2: HDFS Test #2
8 Nov 2015
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Ch. 9 language and development: language is the method of using symbols to communicate meaning, symbols can be spoken or unspoken, can be written, signaled or gestured, all languages have infinite generativity, number of sentences is unlimited, phoneme: smallest unit of sound in a spoken language, one or several letters, ex: english th in english and spanish, not in french and german, morpheme: smallest unit of meaning, word or part that has meaning, ex: mary"s hat = 3 morphemes, mary, hat, s. We lump things together: short i , long e , short e , hill/heal, mill/meal, bid/bed, hid/head, recognizing language sounds, 8 months start to prefer familiar sounds, infants hear phonemes of all languages citizens of the world , childhood, they can distinguish the languages spoken around them, ability to correctly pronounce a second language decreases with age (10 .
