HDE 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Syntactic Bootstrapping, Phonological Awareness, Fast Mapping
21 Dec 2019
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Word = symbol that stands for something. Language becomes the medium through which we think. Most children learn to speak without direct instruction. Grammar = set of rules that structure language. Phoneme = smallest speech sound unit in a language. Phonology = system of relationships among speech sounds that make up a language. Phonological awareness = sensitivity to the sound structure of a language, skills that come with it. Morpheme = smallest grammatical unit in a language (smallest unit that contains meaning) Semantics = study of meaning in a language; how words/ word combinations are used to express ideas. Syntax = way words are combined to form phrases & sentences. Pragmatics = using language appropriately in different contexts. Grammatical words provide skeletal structure to a sentence. Fast mapping - the ability to learn a new word from a single or very minimal exposure without deliberate instruction or corrective feedback. Overregularization - mistaken application of syntax rules to irregular words.
