PSYC 1010 Chapter : Module 27-31 Lanugage & IQ.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkin

Document Summary

Language structure: phonemes smallest distinctive sound unit vowels and consonants, morphemes smallest unit that carry meaning in a language i, pre, ed (suffix and prefixes, grammar system of rules that enables communication with one another, cat k/a/t 3 phonemes, 1 morpheme, cats k/a/t/s 4 phonemes, 2 morphemes s gives it multiple meanings, mcgurk we are in tuned to processing sounds, when a mouth doesn"t match a sound we have trouble recognizing it we will instinctively chose sight over the sound. Productive language: ability to produce words, babbling stage beginning around 4 months, infants spontaneously utter various sounds, not an imitation of adult speech includes sounds from various languages, by 10 months babbling becomes household language, around age 1 one word stage speak mostly in single words, at 18 months learning explodes one a week to one a day, second birthday two word stage, telegraphic speech early speech which a child uses mostly nouns and verbs.