PSYC 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Metalinguistic Awareness, Language Production, Phonological Development
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Ways of representing and conveying information: 1 thing stands for something else. Other species can communicate, learn words, etc. Phonemes: phonological development: learning about the sound system of a language. Morphemes: semantic development: learning about expressing meaning. Syntax: syntactic development: learning rules for combining words. Pragmatics: pragmatic development: learning how language is used. Language comprehension: understanding what others say (or sign or write) Language production: actually speaking (or signing or writing) to others. Basic order of events: speech perception. By 1 month old, infants perceive speech sounds (phonemes) for all world languages. Baby turns head to sound source when he hears a change from one sound to another. Correct head turn is rewarded by visual display. By age 1, infant speech perception becomes specialized for own language. But also become more sensitive to patterns of speech of language. Infants are sensitive to how often sounds are used together. Infants who are better at this task have more advanced language.
