EAR-20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Phonological Development, Phoneme, Language Development
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Symbols: systems for representing our thoughts, feelings, and knowledge and for communicating them to other people. 1) to represent our thoughts, feelings, and knowledge. 2) to communicate our thoughts, feelings, and knowledge to other people. By 5 years old, most children have mastered their language(s) Comprehension: with regard to language, understanding what others say (or sign or write) Production: with regard to language, actually speaking (or writing or signing) to others. Generativity: refers to the idea that through the use of the finite set of words and morphemes in humans" vocabulary, we can put together an infinite number of sentences and express an infinite number of ideas. Phonemes: the elementary units of meaningful sound used to produce languages. A change in phoneme changes the meaning of the word. 1) phonological development: the acquisition of knowledge about the sound system of a language. The first step in children"s language learning.
