PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: American Sign Language, Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Japanese Language

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Christopher Miners

Document Summary

Coming up with an operational definition of language: what make language different from other forms of animal communication, explain how perceptual skills are essential to language. Why humans are better than computers at interpreting both spoken and written language: describe language as a form of communication, explain how perceptual skills are essential to language. How humans develop language: explain the time course of language development in children and theories of language acquisition, assess the uniqueness of the human capacity for language. Other animals capable of communicating info, ideas, emotions: bees, whales, monkeys, dogs. Other forms of human communication: music, flowers, bids in bridge, the way we hold our bodies. Info can be communicated if both the se(cid:374)de(cid:396) a(cid:374)d the (cid:396)e(cid:272)ei(cid:448)e(cid:396) u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat"s goi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) Semanticity the extent to which a language can use symbols to transmit meaningful messages. Human language is semantic (includes sign language and braille), no matter what language or idiom is used.