PSYB20H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Language Acquisition Device, Critical Period Hypothesis, Speech Perception
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The components of language: phonology, semantics, grammar, and pragmatics children learn about sounds, meaning, structures and uses of lang at the same time phonology: system of sounds that a particular language uses. Includes lang basic units of sounds -> called phonemes (any of the basic units of lang"s phonetic system; phonemes are the smallest sound units that affect meaning) Ex changing the initial phoneme in the word bat -> can change to cat phonological rules are generative. They are applicable beyond the cases on which they are based. Ex english speaker knows that kib is not an eng word but it is a possible sound pattern in the language vs bnik, which could not be possible semantics: study of word meanings and word combinations. As children mature intellectually, their semantic knowledge continues to grow same with adults grammar: structure of a lang and consists of 2 major parts: morphology and syntax.
