Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Phoneme, Pragmatics, Noam Chomsky

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Lynne Zarbatany

Document Summary

Langauge development is amazing most children go from not talking at all before 1y to speaking in complex sentences by age 3 kids know 14,000 words by 6y kids learn language automatically, like walking. 1. phonology deals with the sound patterns in language phoneme: smallest unit of sound that creates differences in meaning (hat vs cat vs cot semantics. 2. deals with meaning in language lexicon: set of known words morphemes: smallest grammatical units of language that convey meaning (ie, -ed, s, -ing) 3. syntax deals with the ordering of language (grammar); rules for putting words together to create meaning. "the dog chased the black cat" -- subject-verb-adjective-object in french the order is different. 4. pragmatics deals with the intended meaning of language; goes beyond literal meaning able to determine meaning based on intonation, knowing the person develops over many years (ie. sarcasm, conversational norms, politeness norms, narrative skills)