PSYC 2076 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: 18 Months, Chief Operating Officer, Morpheme
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Language is a form of communication whether spoken, written, or signed that is. Language consists of the words used by a community and the rules for varying and combining them. infinite generativity endless number of meaningful sentences. Phonology basic units of sound in language (phonemes), rules for combining those sounds. Each language uses only a subset of the sounds that humans are capable of producing, and no 2 languages have precisely the same phonologies which explains why foreign languages may sound strange. Children must learn how to discriminate, produce, and combine the speechlike sounds of their native language in order to make sense of the speech they hear and to be understood when they try to speak. In learning phonology, infants learn to discriminate sounds of their language, such as the difference between b and d sounds, or which phonemes can be combined to form meaningful phonemes in their language. Morphology rules for formation of meaningful words from sounds.
