PSYCH 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Staccato, Eleanor Rosch, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
11 Jan 2018
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"cat," "dog," "take" function morphemes: serve grammatical functions, such as tying sentence to together ("and," "the dog chased the cat" and "the cat was chased by the dog" have the same deep structure surface structure: refers to how a sentence is worded. Language development: three characteristics of language development, children learn language at a rapid rate. The average 1-year-old has a vocabulary of 10 words, which expands to more than. Distinguishing speech sounds: at birth, infants can distinguish all the sounds that occur in all human languages. Within the first 6 months of life, they lose this ability, and, like their parents, can only distinguish among the contrasting sounds in the language they hear being spoken around them. Infants can distinguish among speech sounds, but they cannot produce them reliably, relying mostly on cries laughs, and other vocalizations to communicate: between the ages of about 4 and 6 months, they begin to babble speech sounds.
