PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Bilingual Education, Deaf Culture, Language Processing In The Brain

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkin

Document Summary

Module 28: language and thought language: our spoken, written or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning. There are 3 building blocks that are needed for a language: Phonemes are a language"s basic units of sound. E. g bat you say the phonemes b, a, and t. They are the smallest units that carries meaning; may be a word or part of a word like prefix. Grammar is the system of rules that enables us to communicate which includes semantics (rules for deriving meaning) and syntax ( rules for ordering words into sentences) With great efficiency we sample tens of thousands of words in our memory, and assemble them in perfect sentences. We have learned a lot of words over our years from kindergarten to highschool. Language development"s timing varies, but all children follow the same sequence.