PSYC2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Pragmatics, Language Development, Behaviorism

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC2010
• Professor: Michele Mercer

Document Summary

4 areas of language: phonology, semantics, grammar, syntax and morphology, pragmatics. Theories of language development: behaviourism, operant learning (skinner, nativism. Phonology: how basic speech sounds are put together to form words, the individual and meaningful sound of words, phoneme, the smallest distinctive sound unit, e. g. , math has three phonemes = m/ae/th. Semantics: the meaning of morphemes, words and sentences, morpheme = the smallest unit that carries meaning. Pragmatics verbs to make them past tense: how to communicate with and understand others, the appropriateness of language, turn-taking, keeping on topic, clarity, sociolinguistic knowledge, phrasing, tone, gestures, accents, talking to boss vs. best friend. Phonology: rules about structure and sequence of speech sounds. Semantics: vocabulary words and word combinations for concept. Two areas: reception, perception and comprehension, newborns prefer speech, prefer child directed speech (cds), can discriminate phonemes of native and foreign languages, production. Newborns sensitive to speech: especially (cid:373)other"s.