PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Babbling, Aphasia, Frontal Lobe
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Chapter 9 thinking and language (page 349-359) Language our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning. Morphemes in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word: in english, a few morphemes are also phonemes. Grammar a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others: grammatical rules guide us in deriving meaning from sounds (semantics) and in ordering words into sentences (syntax) When do we learn language: receptive language. By 4 months of age, babies can recognize differences in speech sounds. Receptive language: babies" ability to understand what is said to and about them. At 7 months and beyond, babies can segment spoken sounds into individual words: productive language. Productive language: babies" ability to produce words. Babies are able to recognize noun-verb differences earlier than they utter sentences with nouns and verbs.
