PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Phoneme, Pragmatics, Psychological Nativism
29 Jan 2020
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Lecture 10: language and thought: what is language, language is a largely arbitrary system of communication that combines symbol (such as words or gestural signs) in rule- based ways to create meaning. It is symbolic- we use sounds and words to represent objects, actions, events and ideas. It is generative- a limited number of symbols can be combined in an infinite variety of ways to generate an endless array of novel messages. Lawyer a the wearing shirt nice was. wrong set of rules. In english, articles ( the , a ) and adjectives ( nice ) must come before nouns ( shirt . Speak no more or no less than is required: 2. Ie the words that are used to describe something can influence your memory of it: lee whorf (1956) English language: hanunoo culture may care more about different types of rice than (most)
