PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vocal Folds, Language Processing In The Brain, Fast Mapping

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerald Goldberg, Miranda Di Lorenzo, Nikoo Norouzian, JongJin Kim, Eden Champagne

Document Summary

Symbols: represent or refer to objects, actions, events and ideas objects, actions, events and ideas are the referent. Semantic: meaningful (and arbitrary-no built-in or natural relationship between symbol and referent) Generative: limited number of symbols can be combined. Structured: there are rules regarding arrangement of symbols. Hierarchical (distinct features of speech) are the kinds of things are tongue, lips, and vocal cords allow us to do in terms of making sounds. Phoneme: one of the units of sound that distinguish one word from another in a particular language. Morpheme: smallest grammatical unit in a language. Semantics: study of meaning of words and word combinations in language. Denotation: literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. Connotation (emotional overtones): an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning have an influence on how we see reality.