Psychology: Language Development

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Language

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a form of communication consisting of sounds, words, meaning, and rules for their combination

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Semanticity

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accounts for the communication of meaning

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Phonemes

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basic distincy sounds of spoken language

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Morphemes

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smallest unit of meaning (e.g word prefxes and suffixes)

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Generativity

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accounts for capacity to use a limited number of words to produce an infinite variety of expressions

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Recursion

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ability to inssert one exression into another making possible the construction of long, embedded sentences

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Iteration

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ability to add a phrase to the end of a sentence to form an entirely new sentence

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Syntax

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rules of grammar that govern how we put words into a sentence

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Displacement

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accounts for the capacity to communicate about matters that are not in the here-and-now or immediate surroundings

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Pragmatics

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social context of language that governs interaction

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Surface Structure

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Chomsky's view of the words that are actually used to communicate the meaning of something

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Deep Structure

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Chomsky's view of teh underlying meaning of a word or phrase

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Babbling Stage

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(4 months)(sensorimotor)
production of speech like sounds and syllables, babies make nearly alls ounds heard in all languages

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Telegraphic speech

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short, simple sequences of nouns and verbs without plurals, tenses or function