Psychology 2410A/B Lecture 8: Language Development
2 Mar 2017
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Rules for putting words together, creating meaning. Seems to be more under biological control compared to other aspects of language. English: the dog chased the black cat; french: the dog chased the cat black. Differe(cid:374)(cid:272)es i(cid:374) ho(cid:449) the (cid:373)essage is (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)eyed (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) ho(cid:449) it"s spoke(cid:374) Early vocalisations in vowel format cooing, squeals. Consonants do not come out until 4 months (babbling) Deaf babies babble with their hands if exposed to sign language. Within the practice of babbling, they are practicing their own language phonemes, pitch, rhythm. Morphemes smallest units of meaning (eg. s at the end of words) Huge variation in how well words are articulated, what the words are, when they appear. The first word is usually meaningful or something that has a definite meaning eg. ball, dog. Holophrases a single word stands for a larger sentence (eg. up). Learning a few key nouns and verbs rather than a full sentence.
