PSYC 2650 Chapter 9: PSYCH 2650 CHAPTER 9
4 Feb 2016
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For each word, the speaker typically has several bits of information. Most words are used to name objects or events in the world around us. What a word refers to is called the words referent with this context one might propose that the meaning of a word of phrase is linked to the words referent ex: bird. There new words don"t arrive in the language as isolated entries. however because language users immediately how to create variations on each word by adding the appropriate morphemes. The generatively of language is even more salient when we consider the upper levels in the hierarchy ( gure 9. 1) the levels of phrases and sentences. most sentences. Thursday, march 12, 2015 though contain 20 words or fewer. with this length limit there is 100,000,000,000,000 possible sentences. but, there are limits on which combinations are acceptable and which are not.
