PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Golden Retriever, Vocal Tract, Metalinguistic Awareness
24 Sep 2013
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Chapter 11 overview of chapter notes with lecture notes/slides. Communicative competence refers to how well an individual conveys their. Individual sounds used in a specific language. Vocables are a unique pattern of sound that pre-linguistic infants use to represent objects, actions and events: morphology: the rules governing the formation of meaningful words from sounds. Plural add s" rules for how sounds form words: semantics: the expressed meaning of words and sentences free morphemes: dog has meaning on its own. Smallest unit of language is a morpheme. Bound morphemes: -- s changes the meaning of dog" but needs dog to add meaning. Morphemes that cannot stand alone but that modify the meaning of free morphemes (--ed) Modifies meaning of free morpheme: syntax: the structure of a language; the rules specifying how words and grammatical markers are to be combined to produce meaningful sentences.
