PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Babbling, Oneword, Morpheme
2 Sep 2016
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The way we combine them to communicate meaning. Meaningfulness: the ability tp add significant meaning to things, ideals, feelings, by labeling them with the words. Displacement: through language, we can talk about the objects and events that are not currently present. Productivity: no end to the things that language can express including new creation. Psycholinguistics: those who study how individuals acquire, understand and create language. Grammar: rules in language that allow people to communicate and understand others. Syntax: rules for combining words into sentences that are understandable. Phoneme: in language, the smallest distinguishable unit of sound. Morpheme: in language, the smallest unit that holds meaning. Babbling stage: (6-8 months) starts to utter sounds; not virtually significant. One-word stage: (1-2 year) child starts to speak, mostly in single words. Begins to use language to communicate with others usually one syllable words. Thing that they can play with or food. Two-word stage: (2 years) child speaks in 2 word sentences.
