PSYC 2500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Joint Attention, Deaf Culture, 18 Months
2 Nov 2016
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Language: a system that relates sounds (or gestures) to meaning. Language has arbitrary units and is therefore symbolic. Language shows displacement-one can communicate about events distant in follows structure. time and space, not just here and now. Language is characterized by generativity- one can produce an infinite number of utterances from a language"s vocabulary, provided that one. Example: a child says, (cid:498)yesterday at the park a dog frightened me(cid:499) this is language. The dog at the park snarled at the child. The dog was communicating for the moment in that situation. Phonology: refers to the sounds of a language. (200 in all spoken languages, 45 in english) (basic building blocks of language) Morphology: refers to the rules of meaning within the language (free vs. Semantics: denotes the study of words and their meaning. New international dictionary. (half a million words, typical college student has a vocab of about 150 000 words)
