PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Tses, Language Acquisition, Phonetics
23 Jan 2016
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01/23/2016 in spite of the complexity of language, the vast majority of children. Language acquisition (cid:1) acquire their native language rapidly and seemingly with little effort. (cid:1) (cid:1) and constraints that govern: The results of the acquisition process is a grammar: a system of rules. The production, perception and patterning of speech sounds (phonetics and phonology) The formation of words and sentences (morphology and syntax) The interpretation of words and utterances (semantics) (cid:1) Grammatical rules are acquired by children subconsciously, without (cid:1) explicit instruction and w/o significant correction of errors by caregivers. (cid:1) (cid:1) Parents tend to correct only certain types of errors, most commonly semantic overextension and morphological overregulating. The extension of the meaning of a word based on its salient properties: ex: overextend ball to refer to any round object. The overapplication of a rule to fomrs which it should not apply to, (cid:1) (cid:1) ix: irregulars.
