PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Language Acquisition Device, Transformational Grammar, Universal Grammar
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Case study: late 1870s- mcguffey"s first ecletic reader most popular reading textbook. It had a complex rigor that was rarely seen in reading material for kids. Diacritical marks: symbols above letters that indicate their correct pronounciation in a particular word. Kids learned and can teach themselves because there were diacritical markers indicating how to pronounce the new words. Intonation: has lines set at angles to show how the voice should rise and fall when reading the sentence. Articulation: utterance of the element sounds of a language and their combinations. We don"t really see this method in teaching today. The structure of language: wilhelm wundt: one of the first to do research in psychology of language. Wanted to examine the structure of language (experience and the words used to describe it) Wundt: used tree diagrams to describe relationships between diff parts of overall experience of a situation. Tree diagrams: start with one level where relations are simultaneously present.
