PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Empiricism, Oneword

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Heidi Bailey

Document Summary

Phonology: referrers to the basic units of sound, or phonemes, that are used in a language and the rules for combining these sounds. Morphology: rules of morphology specify how words are formed from sounds. Syntax: the rules that specify how words are to be combined to form meaningful phrases and sentences. Pragmatics: knowledge of how language might be used to communicate effectively. It also involves sociolinguistic knowledge- culturally specified rules that dictate how language should be used in particular social contexts. Lessons from negative evidence: expansions- responding to a child"s ungrammatical utterance with a grammatically improved from of that statement, recasts- responding to a child"s ungrammatical utterance with a nonrepetitive statement that is grammatically correct. Early reactions to speech: prelinguistic phase- the period before children utter their meaningful words. Week #8: newborns are programmed to tune in to human speech. When spoken to they often open their eyes, gaze at the speaker, and sometimes even vocalize themselves.