LING 1P92 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Prototype Theory, Problem Solving

• School: Brock University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1P92
• Professor: Lynn Dempsey

Document Summary

Communicative: direct it at someone, purposeful behavior. Intentional: allows us to exchange information & ideas, displacement- higher level language function that only humans use. Structured: pattern based on rules, rules determine sounds to make words, words unto sentences, and sentences into discourse. e. g -> grammar, spelling, putting words in the right order. Language can always be broken down e. g -> a is a letter, but can be broken down to a sound. Limited set of sounds can create unlimited set of words. Small set of words can be used to generate a limitless number of sentences: e. g-> the man killed the lion/ or the. Multimodal: oral, not just oral, but can be in other forms such as sign language etc. Repair- automatically repeat but in the proper form. Language is system of symbols that we use to express thoughts, ideas, and feelings.