PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mondegreen, Jimmy Fallon, Mutual Exclusivity
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Prof so far has never heard there"s no way for me to express this idea in this language . We can create & understand sentences we"ve never heard before. How do we do it? create sentences. Abstract & unconscious rules govern how we are able to put words together to. Unconscious not explicitly learned, learned through practice/experience. No real boundaries between words children have to learn to segment speech as part of language learning. Can hear the diff sounds but don"t know how they go together to form words problem w/ segmentation. Ferdinand de saussure the arbitrariness of the sign . Wilhelm von humboldt infinite use of finite media . Not exclusive to language music, dna. Sentence = noun + verb + noun. 3 x 2 x 3 = 18. Sentence = noun + verb + sentence. 3 x 2 x (3 x 2 x (3 x 2))infinity!
