Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Psycholinguistics, Metamemory, Phoneme

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Language conveys meaning: semantics understanding the meaning of words and sentences, ex. How"d you do on the test? , i nailed it : does not mean you nailed your test against a wall, people unfamiliar with english may not understand the expression and find it perplexing. Language is generative and permits displacement: generativity the symbols of language can be combined to generate an infinite number of messages that have a novel meaning, ex. English has 26 letters that are used to make words and sentences: displacement language allows us to communicate about events and objects that are not physically present, ex. You can talk about the past, the future, and people, objects, and events that currently exist or are taking place elsewhere: can talk about things that are completely imaginary. Language has a surface structure and a deep structure. Understanding and producing language: context plays a key role in understanding language.