Developmental PsychologyLanguage Development Game.ppt

Developmental PsychologyLanguage Development Game Outline of Concepts in Game Phonemes Whole-Object Constraint Word / Naming Explosion Over-Extension Under-Extension Pragmatics Developmental Theories of Language * k h grobman - devpsy.org Your goal is to form a language. Since we only have a class period, your language will use a very limited world (i.e., shapes of varying size and color) and a very limited set of phonemes (i.e., 5). To illustrate your competence as using your language, one person should be able to describe a picture while another person produces it. Though this world is