Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Sigmund Freud, Phoneme, Syntactic Ambiguity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Atkinson

Document Summary

Second term: language, intelligent, sociallysigmund freud: basic characteristics of language, syntax, language learning. Homework: basic characteristics of language: what are the properties of a language. Generativity: ability to use a finite number of words and rules to produce an infinite number of sentences. Displacement: convey information about other times and places: to communicate about places/times we are not actually at. Sentence phrase word morpheme (stranger: strange-er-s) phoneme (showing you how you pronounce the elements ) Phonemes: basic units: english 45, hawaiian 13. Morphemes: meaningful units: changes the meaning and the type of word it is each morpheme change the root word. (believable -->belive-able) Most anything in english can be said with a vocabulary of 850 words. Telephone conversations: 96% of talk made up of 737 words, correlation word frequency and word length. Arranging the elements in a meaningful way, how to put it together, how to build it