PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter Module : Social Learning Theory, Lip Reading, American Sign Language
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Morpheme smallest unit of sound that contains information (often a word, but one word can be made up of more than one morpheme: table: one morpheme, tablecloth: 2 morphemes, tables: 2 morphemes (table)(s) Phonemes smallest unit of sound in a word: dog: 3 phonemes (d/o/g, chair: 3 phonemes (ch/ai/r) Syntax the rules that govern how sentences are put together, a. k. a. grammar. Semantics refers to the meaning of each word or sentence: a sentence can be completely syntactically correct but may have no semantical meaning. Babbling drawn-out sounds made up of a variety of combinations of vowels and consonants. Used by infants before their first words: as development progresses, infants begin to repeat certain combinations specific to a language and this becomes the basis for their first words. Between 1. 5 to 6 years of age, children enter into the language explosion stage where vocabulary increases rapidly and most children have mastered the concept of language.
