PSY 20673 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chief Operating Officer
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Language reps message contained in speech- manual sign language, written communication, spoken language (which is also speech) can have language without speech (sign language) & speech without language- speech of birds that trained to talk. E. g. present to past tense with ed, singular to plural with s)- cat s 2 units of meaning concept of cat & concept of plural. Involves prefixes, suffixes, inflection: grammar: combination of syntax & morphology, semantics: understanding of language- meaning- (cid:449)hethe(cid:396) speake(cid:396)"s i(cid:374)te(cid:374)ded (cid:373)essage is (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:455)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds & combination in age-appropriate manner. Process of turn-taking & initiating, maintaining & ending a convo. Language development: young children go through many stages to acquire language (preverbal stage using words in sentences)
