PSY312H5 Chapter Notes -Construction Grammar, Language Acquisition, Williams Syndrome
Document Summary
Statements are cryptic (children include only the essentials- omit prepositions, articles, adverbs) Children attend to meanings, both the meanings they wish to convey and the meanings other people are trying to get across. Emphasizing meaning is an intelligent approach to language acquisition. Language is a tool for adpating to the social world. Other people promote learning language: the way they talk to children, use objects in the present etc. Languages were constructed by human beings and have evolved so that children can learn them. Phonology: concerns the structure and sequencing of speech sounds. Meaning: emphasizes the correspondences between particular words and phrases and particular objects, properties of objects, events and ideas. Grammar: focuses on the system of rules through which people from sentences. Communication: involves the ways that phonology, syntax, and semantics are used to convey messages to other people. We are able to comprehend language and produce it.
