PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Linguistic Determinism, Aphasia, Babbling

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Language- our spoken, written or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning. Phonemes in a language- the smallest distinctive sound unit. Morphemes in a language the smallest unit that carries meaning fixed ed is the morpheme which means past anaerobic a means without. Grammar the system of rules that helps us communicate with one another. Receptive language babies up to months of age learn by matching the face to the sound. Productive language the ability to produce words able to recognize noun word differences. Babbling stage the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language. One word stage age 1 to 2 where a child speaks one words. Telegraphic speech the stage where a child speaks like a telegram go car made up of nouns and verbs.