PSYC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Critical Period, Noam Chomsky, Language Acquisition

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Meaning of speech: syntax: rules for combining words to form phrases and sentences, learned implicitly, cues. Affixes: ing/ed: word meaning = semantics, pragmatics: knowledge related to using and understanding language that helps us to interpret what others are saying. Steps to comprehension of language: recognize the sounds/phonemes. Identify the words and associate them with meanings (morphology and semantics: analyze the syntax. Interpret the message in its context (syntax, pragmatics, semantics) Speech comprehension: wernicke"s area: location of memories of sequences of sounds that make up words, damage causes wernicke"s aphasia (poor speech comprehension and production of meaningless but fluent speech) Chomsky and nativists: argues the existence of a language acquisition device (lad) which contains rules of universal grammar that develops after our first exposure to language, critical period for learning language during childhood. Specific times when humans bust be exposed to something for normal development to occur (first few years of life for language)

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