PSY-1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Babbling, Temporal Lobe, Universal Grammar
9 Dec 2016
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Language: our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning: phonemes: the smallest distinctive sound units in a language. Not the same as letters: morphemes: the smallest units that carry meaning in a given language. Usually combine two or more phonemes: grammar: the system of rules that enables us to communicate with one another. Language development: when do we learn language. Receptive language: moves from simplicity to complexity, receptive language is the ability to understand what is said to and about oneself, at 7 months children are able to segment spoken sounds into individual words. !1: two-word stage: begins at age 2, the stage in which a child speaks in mostly two-word statements, telegraphic speech: early speech stage in which speaks like a telegram ( go. Wednesday, october 19, 2016 car ) using mostly nouns and verbs: explaining language development, noam chomsky and universal grammar. All human languages have nouns, verbs and adjectives.
