PSY 308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Noam Chomsky, Language Disorder, Language Acquisition Device
28 Mar 2018
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Natural language: language spoken on a daily basis by a community. Normally develops within a year of birth to complex constructions by their third year. Generativity: using relatively small number of basic linguistic components and rules to create boundless unique expressions. Over 100 billion sentences using only 20 words. Phonology: sound patterns of language and rules for combining sounds into words. Phonemes: smallest unit that creates a sound, trackable by age 3 in children. Semantics: not only meanings of individual words but how words combine to convey larger meaning. Lexicon: set of words that a person knows. Syntax: set of rules concerning how words are combined into sentences. Grammar: knowledge of other rules beyond governing relations between words, like elements inside words. Pragmatics: how we use language to convey our intended meaning within particular social context and we figure out other"s meaning. Takes into account goals and motivation of speaker, status of those involved and other cues to intend meaning.
