PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Language Acquisition Device, Phoneme

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Symbols of a true language are arbitrary. No reason to call a baby a baby, could call them anything. Language is infinitely generative, can say any statement in many ways. Language allows for displacement, can talk about any time period, past, present and future. Talk in a continuous speech stream, without forced enunciation. Morphemes units of meaning, shouldnt. Understanding of semantics helps us understand syntax and vice-versa. Pragmatics the social use of language. How you talk to police officer vs your friends.