PSY 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Text Segmentation, Speech Perception, Phoneme

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 302
• Professor: Lixia Yang

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We use symbols to represent our thoughts, feelings, and knowledge and to communicate our thoughts, feelings, and knowledge to other people. Our ability to use symbols expands our cognitive and communicative power. Language use requires comprehension refers to understanding what others say and. Infants" and young children"s ability to understand precedes ability to produce. Sounds are combined to form words, words combined to form sentences, sentences are. To appreciate how it feels like for children learning their rst language, imagine if somebody: you"d have dif culty perceiving some of the phonemes that make up what the person is. Chapter 6: i. e. lila ate the lobster, is different from the lobster ate lila, and morphemes are combined, third component in language learning is syntactic development learning how words. Having an understanding of the interaction with the stranger would necessitate having some: i. e. some societies would nd it bizarre to be addressed by a stranger in the rst place,