ch. 9 languages Flashcards
statistical learning
recognizing patterns in speech stream
phoneme
sounds of a language
- th r z ah
ex: Japanese has different sounds for each letter
morpheme
smallest units of meaning in a language. re -ish -ed
ex: scrabble
syntax
rules for how words should be put together
ex: the cat chased the dog vs the dog chased the cat
plural is
‘s
past tense is
-ed
extra linguistic information
other clues to meaning -tone gestures sarcasm ex: text a friend sarcasticly, she doesn’t know and gets mad
when do infants learn aspects of language
they learn it before birth, they learn the flow of their native language
2 months
cooing and vowel sounds “aaaaaahhhhhh” “eeeeeee”
3-4 months
syllables and consonant sounds “gah” “bah”
6 months
reduplicative babbling “gagagagag”
10 months
conversational babbling “bagado voota?”
10-12 months
first words “dada” “cookie”
1-1.5 years
20-100 words -holophrases are one word sentences “milk”
2 years
several hundred words
two-word phrases “more juice”
