PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Heritability, Creativity, Pragmatics
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Allows us to share inner experiences, influence others, collaborate, etc. Prevarication (language can be used to lie) Displacement (we can refer to objects and events distant in place and time from the speech event) Reflexiveness (language can refer to itself and its properties) Productivity (number of possible utterance types is infinite) Changing a word"s pitch changes its meaning (tonal, e. g. mandarin) vs pitch patterns imposed on the utterance differ expressions (intonation, e. g. english) Phonetics: study of how we articulate sounds, acoustic properties of sounds. Phonology (phonemes): smallest units of speech sounds. Morphology (morphemes): smallest meaningful units of language. Think: morpheme sounds like morphine both are meaningful units. Pragmatics: the meaning of an utterance in different contexts. Universal children are able to rapidly become experts at using language. Language acquisition: subconscious, natural process during which they are unaware of grammatical rules language learning: result of direct instruction in the rules of language.
