PSYC 2034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Carl Wernicke, Paul Broca, Word Formation
16 Feb 2018
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Infinite generativity- ability to produce an endless number of meaningful sentences. Ability to allow displacement: talk about things that occurred or might occur. Phonology: phoneme- smallest unit of sound, sound system of language. Morphology: morphemes- units of meaning involved in word formation, involved in word formation, convey meaning in and of itself. Syntax: ways words are combined to form acceptable phrases and sentences, changes based on type of phrase or sentence trying to make, laymen conception of grammar. Semantics: meanings of words and sentences, can have syntactic correctness and not semantic correctness. Pragmatics: appropriate use of language in context, can be very complex. All babies around world will babble in first six months of life: uniformity across cultures and languages, start to drop out what they don"t hear. Paul broca: patients that suffered strokes, one patient- tan- all could say (leborgne, another patient mute but not when angry (lelong)
