PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cuteness, John Bowlby

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Telegraphic speech=nonessential function words are omitted, common during early language (ex: children first learning grammar. ) As sentences grow beyond 3 and 4 words, they resemble telegram messages. Early combinations of words. (ex: sarah go store vs sara is going to the store. : overregularization=early structural error where children apply inflectional rules to irregular forms (ex: go"ed to school ) We use 2 systesm to best describe how the earliest sentences children produce are structured 1- (children"s sentences organized in terms of meaning based/semantic categories). Environmental bases: expansion (repetition of speech where errors are corrected and statements are elaborated), recasts (response to speech that restates in a different structure), clarification questions ( response indicating listerner didn"t understand the statement. ) Pragmatics=study of social use of languages. (speech acts=an instance of speech used to perform pragmatic functions ex: complaining. ) (discourse=language used in social interactions, conversation. ) comprehended by a listener. )