PSYC 100 Chapter 12: PSYC 100 Chapter 12: PSYC 100 Chapter 12: PSYC 100 Chapter W 12: PSYC 100 Chapter We 12: PSYC 100 Chapter Wek 12: PSYC 100 Chapter Week 12:

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jeremy G. Stewart

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After working through this lesson"s material, you should be able to: Identify the three key properties of human language. Describe the components of language: phonemes, morphemes, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Explain how speech is produced, interpreted in the brain, and understood. Identify the skills required in learning how to read. Describe the sequence of language development milestones (cooing, babbling, single word and two word stage). Interpret what under- and over-extension and overgeneralization tell us about how children learn language. Describe theories of language acquisition (nativist vs. interactionist theories). Apply theories of language acquisition to word learning and grammatical development. Interpret evidence from language learning in atypical environments (wild/isolated children; creolization, e. g. , nicaraguan sign language) with respect to theoretical debates. Interpret outcomes of animal language learning studies (washoe, kanzi, alex) with respect to animals" capacity to develop language-like system of communication and the uniqueness of the human capacity for language.