PSY 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Elissa L. Newport, Voice-Onset Time, Kanzi
30 Jan 2016
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Chapter 6: development of language and symbol use. Symbols systems for representing our thoughts, feelings, and knowledge, and for communicating them to other people. Our ability to use symbols expands our cognitive and communicative power. By 5 years of age, children have mastered the basic structure of their native language, whether spoken or manually signed. Generativity: using the finite set of words in our vocabulary, we can generate in an infinite number of sentences, expressing an infinite number of ideas. Phonemes the elementary units of meaningful sounds used to produce languages; they distinguish meaning. The first step in children"s language learning is phonological development. Phonological development- the acquisition of language about the sound system of a language. Morphemes- the smallest units of meaning in a language, composed of one or more phonemes. Morphemes, alone, or in combination, constitute words. The other indicating more than one of them. The second component in language acquisition is semantic development.
