PSYC 107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Representativeness Heuristic, Language Acquisition Device, Universal Grammar
28 Mar 2017
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Human language communication system specific to homo sapiens, it is open and symbiotic, has rules of grammar, allows its users to express abstract and distant ideas. Syntax rules for arranging words and symbols to form sentences or parts of sentences in a particular language. Grammar entire set of rules for combining symbols and sounds to speak and write a particular language. Cooing the first sounds humans make other than crying, consisting almost exclusively of vowels (first 6 months) Babbling sounds made as a result of the infant"s experimentation with a complex range of phonemes, which include consonants as well as vowels (5-6 months of age) One-word single words (mama, dada, more, no) that occur around 12 months of age. Two-word phrases children put together starting around 18 months (my ball, go away) Sentence phrase stage at which children begin speaking in fully grammatical sentences (2 - 3)
