PSYC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Amniotic Sac, Trophoblast, Phoneme

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill Atkinson

Document Summary

Displacement: using language to convey messages that aren"t ties to immediate context: chimps use signs to create new words. Phonemes: sounds that distinguish one word from another: in english r and l are different phonemes but in other languages they aren"t, help us gure out where word boundaries occur. Morphemes: smallest unit of meaning in language (combination of phonemes: free morphemes: stand alone as words, bound morphemes: meaningful only when combines with other morphemes. Semantics: relationship between words and meanings (crucial for comprehension) Syntax: rules of language for combining words to form phrases. Pragmatics: rules of language allowing people to use language appropriately (helps you interpret what others say to you) Coarticulation: speech sounds not produced in discrete sequence (sound associate with phoneme varies depending on context) Categorial perception: tendency of perceivers to disregard physical differences between stimuli and perceive them as the same (word lake gradually changing to rake)