PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Morpheme, Pragmatics, Language Acquisition Device
14 Nov 2016
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Language=an organized means of combining words in order to communicate with those around us. Allows us to think about things and processes we cannot see, hear, feel etc. Allows us to have ideas that may not have any tangible form. Properties of language: communicative, arbitrarily symbolic (represents the same word in different languages, regularly structured (has to be a certain way, structured at multiple levels, generative (use new terms, constantly changing, dynamic. Morphemes- the study of the smallest unit of meaning within words (re-change, jump-ed) Syntax-grammar, the arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, sentences. Semantics-the different meaning of the same sentence. Pragmatics- the style of speech, the social context of language. Development of language-comprehension and production, comprehension precedes production: comprehension-understanding of language, production-ability to produce the language. Differential perception-the ability to distinguish the sounds of language. Categorical perception-taking the same sound and categorizing them together, even though. Speech segmentation-where one word stops and the other one starts.
