PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Syntactic Bootstrapping, Communicative Competence, Phonological Development
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Study only the following main sections: language development, the process of language acquisition, nonlinguistic symbols and development. Comprehension: required to develop language skills; refers to understanding what others say (or sign or write) Production: refers to speaking (or signing or writing) The components of language: sounds are combined to form words, words are combined to form sentences, sentences are combined to form stories, conversation and other kinds of narratives. Generativity: the idea that, through the use of the finite set of words and morphemes in humans" vocabulary, we can put together an infinite number of sentences and express an infinite number of ideas. The components of language: phonemes: units of sound in speech; a change in phoneme changes the meaning of a word (e. g. , rake vs. lake) Phonological development: the acquisition of knowledge about the sound system of a language: morphemes: the smallest units of meaning in a language, composed of one or more phonemes.
