PSYC 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Mental Disorder, Frontal Lobe, Bounded Rationality
12 Dec 2016
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Language: a set of symbols used to communicate. Language comprehension: the ability to/process of understanding spoken, written, or signed language. The study of speech has 4 components: phonology: the study of how individual sounds are used to produce language. Phoneme: the smallest unit of sound in a language: semantics: the study of how meaning is attained in a language. Morpheme: the smallest units of a language that convey meaning. Between 2-4 months of age children can distinguish all phonemes of all languages (called pre-vocal learning) By the age of 2 months children start making vocal sounds other than crying, mostly these are vowel sounds (called cooing) By 6 months children start babbling (producing meaningless speech sounds) By 1 year they say their first words. By age 2 they use telegraphic speech (minimalist sentences with only the words which are absolutely necessary to get their point across) Pragmatics will set in by 3 years of age.
