CHAPTER 8.11: Language

Question 1

what are the unique feautres of human language

Answer 1

• semanticity (meaning)
• productivity (can create infinite sentences)
• displacement (can talk about things that are not in here and now)
• socially learned

Question 2

what is language?

Answer 2

communication that involves written, spoken and gestural symbols that are combined in rule based form

Question 3

what are phonomes

Answer 3

the most basic unit of speech sounds

Question 4

does every language use all 200 different phenomes?

Answer 4

nope

Question 5

what is experience dependsnt plasticity

Answer 5

young infants being able to discriminating between all 200 phonemes, but we lose it at like 10 months because the brain becomes specialized in its native langauge