COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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Question
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Phoneme
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Morpheme
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Grammar
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Babbling
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Critical Periods Hypothesis
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Detailed explanation-1: -Phoneme – The smallest unit of sound. There are approximately 44 phonemes – e.g. ‘s’, ‘a’, ‘ch’, ‘igh in light’. Phonemes can be put together to make words e.g c-a-t.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Central dialect of Rotokas possesses one of the world’s smallest phoneme inventories. (Only the Pirahã language has been claimed to have fewer.) The alphabet consists of twelve letters, representing eleven phonemes.
Detailed explanation-3: -A phoneme is defined as the smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in meaning.
Detailed explanation-4: -Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in a language. A phoneme is the smallest unit (sound) of language which serves to distinguish words from one another. Example: bat contains three phonemes (/b/a/t/). A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of language that cannot be broken into smaller parts.