PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Metalinguistic Awareness, Language Acquisition Device, 6 Years
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Symbols of language used to transmit information. Smallest units of sound that contain information. Morpheme can be broken down into its constituent sounds. Some are complicated like c ( s/k sound) Consistent letter-to-sound correspondence, so that a given letter will always make the same sound transparent orthographies. Refers to the rules that govern how we put words together to form a sentence. Order in which words occur in a sentence ( subject-verb-object) Can have meaning and be understood without syntax. Understand different meanings for a word depending on the context in which it is presented: the word present can be used in different contexts. Section 3: language development table 5. 4 page 149. Universal phonemic sensitivity: ability to discriminate between virtually all phonemes even before they learn language, conditioned head turn procedure( playing two diff. Able to speak their native language but seem to have a foreign accent.