PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Loves Mary, Text Segmentation, Active Child

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Loredana Kun

Document Summary

Language: is flexible, productive and inventive you are able to create trillions of sounds from small number of sentences. Nature vs nurture plays a part in language learning: Sociocultural comparisons people from different places learn differently, in terms of languages and the timing of the learning. Every language has rules for using these sounds and putting them together. E. g. rake & lake differ by 1 phoneme (r//vs//l) Phonological development: the mastery of the sound system of their language: semantics: learning the system for expressing meaning in a language including word meaning. Morphemes: smallest units of meaning; made of one or more phonemes (dog vs dogs) Free or bound (prefix & suffix: syntax: rules in a language that specify how words from diff. categories (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. ) can be combined. The grammar, putting the words together and creating the sentence. Rules for syntax, on how to put the semantics together to make words. e. g. john loves mary &