Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psycholinguistics, Operant Conditioning, Language Development

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas-DeHoog

Document Summary

Psych chapter 9 language january 7th 2019: humans dominate because we are able to communicate. Properties of language powerpoint, slides 5-10 & passer et al. , 2017 : symbols, structure, meaning, generativity, displacement. Language is symbolic and structured language uses sounds, written characters, or other system of symbols (like hand signs) to represent objects, events, ideas, feelings, and actions: symbols are arbitrary, ex. We can discuss about past and future, as well as things that exist or are taking place elsewhere, or even imaginary situations. The structure of language powerpoint, slides 11-13 language has a surface structure and a deep structure it also has a hierarchical structure. Surface structure and deep structure: surface consists of symbols that are used and their order (syntax, deep underlying meaning of the combined symbols (semantics, sentences can have different surface structure, but same deep structure, ex. The cake was eaten by james: ambiguous sentences can have same surface structure, but different deep structure, ex.