PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cochlear Implant, Phoneme, Critical Period
15 Aug 2016
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Largely arbitrary of communication that combines symbols (words or gestures) in rule-based ways to create shared meaning. Enables us to express thoughts and feelings, facilitates vacillates relashioship. 4 levels of analysis that must coordinate in order for us to communicate effectively. Probably around 100 total, each language only uses a subset of them. Some languages contain sounds that don"t occur in other languages. The smallest units of meaning in a language, created by stringing phonemes together. Convey information about semantics - meaning derived from words and sentences. Can be full words ( dog ) or modi ers ( re- ) The set of rules of a language by which we construct complete sentences. Includes factors like word order, *morphological markers (e. g. , adding s for plural, adding ing for ongoing action), and sentence structure. Elements of communication that are not part of the content of language but are critical.
