PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: System On A Chip, Nemes, Axact
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Changing a phoneme changes the meaning of a word: semantics (cid:224) the study of word meanings and word combinations, as in phrases, clauses, and sentences, grammar (cid:224) the structure of language; made up of morphology and syntax. Recast (cid:224) a technique adults use in speaking to young children in which they render a child"s incomplete sentence in a more complex grammatical form: through recasting, adults are both correcting children"s utterances and guiding them toward more appropriate grammatical usage, develop linguistically at a faster rate, using question and complex verb form at an earlier age than is common. Joint visual attention (cid:224) the ability to follow another person"s attentional focus or gaze of attention: major advance in infants" communicative abilities, important for social interaction and referential communication between infants and their parents, possibly necessary for the growth of pointing and other abilities, precursor to language acquisition.
