PSYC 2110 Study Guide - Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Vocal Tract, Frontal Lobe

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2110
• Professor: Gillian Wu

Document Summary

Ch 11: dev of lang and comm skills. Language: meaningless symbols that allow for an infinite number of msg"s. Communicate: transmit and influence info to other organisms. Vocables: unique sound patterns that infants use to represent events i. e. rrruh! being a way to communicate a car pulled into the driveway. Phonology: combines phonemes (basic units of sound) to make the sounds of a language sound system of language. Morphology: rules to create words from sounds. Syntax: rules that specify how words combine to become phrases i. e. np vp. Pragmatics: k. l of how lang might be used to communicate effectively: involves sociolinguistic k. l: cultural rules that dictate how lang should be used in certain social contexts. The idea is that child make some ling mistakes, since they have a small ling database, but as they process more input they continue to dev. Children around the world reach milestones at the same age.