EDPS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Language Development, Caveman, Sociolinguistics
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Children must master the four basic components of language. Rules used to put words together into sentences. Conventions and strategies used in effective and socially acceptable verbal interactions. Around age 2 children learn about 20 new words each day. Applying too broad a meaning to inappropriate solutions. Understanding the concrete words precedes understanding of abstract words. Words connected to objects/events in people"s physical, social, and psychological worlds. Nonlexical words that affect the meanings of other words (have i. Nonlexical words that affect the meanings of other words (have little meaning by themselves) Interring a word"s general meaning after a single or two exposures. Ex: if someone uses a word while pointing to a particular object, the word probably refers to the whole object rather than to just a part of it. The rules that we use to combine words into meaningful sentences. Short, grammatically incorrect sentences, generally used by toddlers (and cavemen)
