PSY 341 Study Guide - Final Guide: Linguistic System, Uee, Illocutionary Act
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Pragmatics refers to the principles that underlie how language should be structured and used: explain what is meant by fast mapping, and contrast overextensions and underextensions in early word usage (page 404), fast mapping refers to the process of acquiring and retaining a word after hearing it applied to its referent. In contrast, underextension is the phenomenon in which young children tend to use a general word to refer to a smaller set of objects, actions, or events: outline some strategies children may use to infer the meaning of words (page 405), children may use several strategies to infer the meaning of words. Finally, children can also infer word meanings by syntactical bootstrapping that is, from sentence structure: explain what holophrases are, and identify the communicative function they serve (page 402), holophrases are single word utterances based almost entirely on context that express a complex idea.
