PSYB20H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Soltyrei, Metalinguistic Awareness, Social Class
1 May 2017
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Language & communication: describe what language is. The components of language: phonology, semantics, grammar, and pragmatics. Language a communication system in which words and their written symbols combine in various, regulated ways to produce an infinite number of messages. Four components of language: phonology the system of sounds that a particular language uses. 4. discuss the critical period hypothesis, as well as evidence both for and against this idea. Chomsky: language-acquisition device (lad) children are born with mental structures in the nervous system that incorporates an innate concept of language. Nativists argue that because language ability is an inherited species-specific characteristic, all languages of the species must display universal features = must share basic characteristics. Critical period a specific period in children"s development when they are sensitive to a particular environmental stimulus that does not have the same effect on them when encountered before or after this period.
