Developmental Psychology Notes
Developmental Psychology
Reading Notes
Pages 260-230
-children go from knowing no lang in the first year to producing and comprehending complex constructions in their 3rd year
-language is a that emerges is a natural language that refers to any lang spoken on a daily basis by a community -acquiring lang is so common it isn't thought of as a crazy achievement
-change in lang and change in how others speak to them
-do certain langs guide certain thoughts?
-Generativity= producing novel sentences that were never uttered before using relatively small number of basic linguistic compenents and rules so we have a limitless variety of unique expressions
-using a finite system our brain can comprehend and produce and infinite set of utterances
-Phonology= the sound patterns of lang and the rules for combinging sounds into words
-Phonemes= the smallest unites of sound that create diff meanings (ex. Pin vs. thin) -by 3 children can almost track all of them and use them to segment sounds into words
-Semantics= tells us the meaning of individual words and how words combine to convey larger meanings
-Lexicon= the set of words that a person knows -as child gains semantic knowledge they develop more elaborate conceptual knowledge of categories
-Syntax= a set of rules concerning how words are combined into sentences -knowledge of syntax is earned with knowledge of a lang's grammar
-Grammar= knowledge of other rules beyond those governing relations between words like between elements inside words.
-Pragmatics= how we use lang to convey our intended meaning within a particular social context and how we figure out others' intended meanings -literal vs. sarcasm -taking into account the inferred goals and motivations of the speaker, the status of those involved in speech, and other non linguistic cues to intended meaning
-Universal Constraits= all lang show same constraits on their structural patterns -take the form of consistent
Reading Notes
Pages 260-230
-children go from knowing no lang in the first year to producing and comprehending complex constructions in their 3rd year
-language is a that emerges is a natural language that refers to any lang spoken on a daily basis by a community -acquiring lang is so common it isn't thought of as a crazy achievement
-change in lang and change in how others speak to them
-do certain langs guide certain thoughts?
-Generativity= producing novel sentences that were never uttered before using relatively small number of basic linguistic compenents and rules so we have a limitless variety of unique expressions
-using a finite system our brain can comprehend and produce and infinite set of utterances
-Phonology= the sound patterns of lang and the rules for combinging sounds into words
-Phonemes= the smallest unites of sound that create diff meanings (ex. Pin vs. thin) -by 3 children can almost track all of them and use them to segment sounds into words
-Semantics= tells us the meaning of individual words and how words combine to convey larger meanings
-Lexicon= the set of words that a person knows -as child gains semantic knowledge they develop more elaborate conceptual knowledge of categories
-Syntax= a set of rules concerning how words are combined into sentences -knowledge of syntax is earned with knowledge of a lang's grammar
-Grammar= knowledge of other rules beyond those governing relations between words like between elements inside words.
-Pragmatics= how we use lang to convey our intended meaning within a particular social context and how we figure out others' intended meanings -literal vs. sarcasm -taking into account the inferred goals and motivations of the speaker, the status of those involved in speech, and other non linguistic cues to intended meaning
-Universal Constraits= all lang show same constraits on their structural patterns -take the form of consistent