PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Noam Chomsky, Critical Period
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Rules of combination that allow for communication. Data does provide support for this theory. Hard-wired to sort input from 20-80 phonemes. Phonemes : smallest units of sounds which can be distinguished; change in sound can. Initial phonemes: c at or b at. Middle phonemes: b i t or b a t. Morphemes : smallest units of meaning in a language. Semantics : understanding the meaning of words and word combinations. Syntax : the structure of a language, underlying rules of order/function for how words can be. Gleason study : language combined to form phrases and sentences. She came up with novel words, and tested children to see if they can apply rules of rules are generative language in generative way. (gleason"s wug test) Over regularizations : grammatical rules incorrectly generalized to exception cases. Examples: he goed to the park; he bringed the cake to the party. Fast-mapping : children may add words to their vocabularies after one exposure.
