languague and communication

Question 1

languague

Answer 1

a system of symbols used to communicate

combines menigless elements into structures that convey meaqning

Question 2

languague

Answer 2

form: phnemes- (meaning of sounds),morphems-smallest units of meaning ex:run,cat,cats),syntax-rules of how to combine words

content:sematics-meaning of words

Use:pragmatics-rules of how use languague (ex: across context)

Question 3

languague acquasition:nature

Answer 3

-innately human characteristic

bees can communicate,birds communicate:they dont have syntax - understand a setence having an order

great appes:chepanes are the closer to understan syntax still not as good as a human can

Question 4

languague acquisition:nurture

Answer 4

-require experience and exposure

• timing is important
  of whe to acquire languague- sensitive/critical period

second languague aquisition after adoption: as they get older languague aquisition gets harder (after age 7)is get harder to learn

Question 5

much of linguistic competence is complete by childhood

Answer 5

10-12 month,infants descriminate and produce the sounds of languague

infants produce their first words at around 12months by 2 they have a vocabulary of 200-500 words

18 months beging combinig words

by 3 years are using longer and more complex senteces

Question 6

linguistic competence

Answer 6

understanding the form and structural languague:being able to understand and create senteces

Question 7

communicative competence

Answer 7

it develops in infacy, the ability to how to communicate, how to do conversation with others

Question 8

piaget

Answer 8

egocentric speech:

-reflection of children’s egocentric thinking

-monologues: running discourse

-Collective Monologues: when two individuals are speaking together but not for the purpose of each other

he also belived as they get older and get to the concrete stage they move to social speech(egocentric speech > social speech)

Question 9

Vygotsky

Answer 9

private speech :

-drives thinking(which is different to piaget who belived it was just a reflection of your thinking, not influencing your thinking like vygotsky belived)

-serves purpose of self-regulation,planning

-found to be used more in difficult tasks

speech from others>private speech>inner speech

Question 10

conservation

Answer 10

-turn taking (young babies can do that)-gets better at time

-taking related turns(poor in early childhoof,but it improves steadly

-reparing miscommunication:
1-3 years old initially tend to repeat failed communication

 #3-5 years old are more likely to repair failed communication
 
 throughout development,increse in giving/respoding to verbal and non-verbal feedback