PSYC 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Speech Perception, Count Noun, Grammatical Gender
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Chapter 6: development of language and symbol use. --symbols: systems for representing our thoughts, feelings, knowledge and for communicating them to other people. Language is a big one and becoming symbol-minded is a crucial development. Language development language use requires comprehension: understanding what others say; and production: speaking or write or sign to others. Morphemes: smallest units of meaning in lang, composed of one or more phonemes. Semantic development: 2nd, learning of sys for expressing meaning in a lang, including word learning. Syntax: rules in lang that specify how words from different categories are combined. Syntatic development: 3rd. deve of systax of a language. Pragmatic development: acquiring knowledge about how language is used typical of the context. Generativity: through use of the finite set of words and morphemes in humans" vocab, we can put together an. The mastery of the sound system of their lang. Metalinguistic knowledge: understanding of the properties and function of language understanding.