PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Communicative Competence, Language Development

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

Communicative competence: how well an individual conveys their thoughts, feelings and intentions. Language consists of productive component (translate thoughts into sounds/words) and receptive components (decode external words/sounds into own thought: phonology. Rules for how sounds are combined to form words. Ex. past tense add ed, plural add s: semantics. Free morphemes: free morphemes: meaning in and of themselves ex. dog, doll. Bound morpheme must attach to a free morpheme to make sense (something that attaches at end of word to change meaning) add ---- s: syntax. Ex. the cat chased the dog, different from the dog chased the cat: pragmatics. Knowledge of how language is used to communicate, differences based on who you"re talking to. Ex. speaking to young child vs professor: sociolinguistic knowledge. Cultural rules of language use (manners, please and thank you) Noam chomsky: social relationships may be necessary for activation of language acquisition device. Child saying dadadada, father gets excited, making said sounds are reinforced.