PSYC 1010 Chapter Module 28: Language and Thought

• 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 units. Morphemes: in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word. Grammar: a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others. in a given language, semantics is the set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds. Syntax- is the set of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences. Babbling stage: beginning at around 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language. One-word stage: the stage in speech development, from about age. 1-2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words. Two-word stage: beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in two-word statements.