PSYC 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Universal Grammar, Grammatical Gender, Hard Wired
5 Apr 2018
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The human brain contains a "hard-wired" set of rules for organizing language. Communication: the transfer of information from one individual to another. Requires people to have (or acquire) a shared understanding of what particular communications mean. People influence, and are influenced by others through communication. Message: is the communication to which people assign meaning. Channel: is the pathway through which the message is sent. Noise gets in the way of the transaction model. Language: a set of sounds that convey meaning because they are organized according to a set of rules. Utterances: complete units of speech in spoken language - which the meaning is determined by semantic rules. Semantic rules: rules that determine the meaning of sounds and words (grammar) Grammatical gender: organization of nouns along masculine, feminine and neutral dimensions. Linguistic nativism the human brain contains a "hard-wired" set of rules for organizing language. Pragmatics: the distinction between what a speakers words literally mean and the speakers intended meaning.
