Psychology 2040A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Baby Talk, Elizabeth Bates, Dan Slobin
18 Apr 2013
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Chapter 11: development of language and communication skills gestures) that can be combined according to agreed-on rules to produce an in nite number of messages. Language: small number of individually meaningless symbols (sounds, letters, Communicate: process where one transmits info to and in uences another. Vocables: unique patterns of sound that prelinguistic infant uses to represent objects, actions, or events. Psycholinguistics: those studying structure and development of kid"s language. 5 kinds of knowledge underlie the growth of linguistic pro ciency: phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics. Phonology: sound system of a language and the rules for combining these sounds to produce meaningful units of speech: no 2 languages have the same phonology, ex. Phonemes: the basic units of sound that are used in a spoken language. Morphology: rules governing the formation of meaningful words from sounds: ex. Semantics: the expressed meaning of words and sentences. Free morphemes: morphemes that can stand alone as a word: ex.
