LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Itri, Cultural Learning, Nim Chimpsky
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It serves as a means of communication. A plant, having a trunk with leaves and/or needles. A signifier is that part of a sign that stimulates at least one sense organ of the receiver of a message. For example, the pronunciation of the word tree [tri:]. The signified component of the sign refers to both the real world object it represents and its conceptual content. All signs can act as signals when they trigger a specific action on the part of the receiver of the message, as do many traffic lights, words in human language ( take" or bring", etc. ) Signs can be divided into three basic types, depending on: (1) whether the signifier naturally resembles its referent, (2) whether the signifier is directly linked with the referent being a partial or. 2 representative sample of it, or (3) whether the signifier and referent are arbitrarily associated. Discrete sign structure (no gradual transition, categorical (stepwise) differences)