Psychology 3228 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Specific Language Impairment, Universal Grammar, Language Acquisition
3 Dec 2016
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Types of animal communication: honey bees do a dance to say where a patch is and how much nectar it has, and vervet monkeys and prairie dogs have different calls for different predators. Use of vocal auditory channel-not a necessary feature e. g. sign language. Arbitrariness-languages use symbols that need bear no relationship to what is being discussed. Cultural transmission-languages are handed down by generations. Spontaneous usage-language is spoken freely not only under duress. Duality or double-articulation-languages are double layered, the component sounds of a word are meaningless without being placed in a specific order. Displacement-language can refer to things that are no there (temporal and spatial displacement) Structure dependence-human language is fussy on how words go together. Grammar is a means of obtaining limitless power of expression from a comparatively small set of words. You can communicate in the dark languages. You don(cid:495)t have to be looking at the person with whom you(cid:495)re communicating,
