PSYC 2290 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Cochlear Implant, Child Development, Speech-Language Pathology

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2290
• Professor: Jocelyn B.Proulx

Document Summary

For most of their first year, infants do not talk elements of language: Language is the system that relates sounds or gestures to meaning. Language differs from simple communication in 4 main ways: It has arbitrary units and is therefore symbolic. It shows displacement - one can communicate about events distant in time and space, not just here and now. It is characterized by generativity - one can produce an infinite number of add utterances from language"s vocabulary, provided that one follows the structure. Languages are expressed in many forms - through speech, writing and gesture. Spoken languages usually involves five distinct but interrelated elements: phonology - refers to the sounds of language, morphology - refers to rules of meaning within the language. Bound morphemes - s for plural and ing suffix. These bound morphemes change the meaning of the word. example, dog become dogs and run. Becomes running semantics - denotes the study of words and their meaning.