Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Frontal Lobe, Pragmatics, Tree Structure

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Albert Katz

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Umpire, talk: some morphemes are bound to free morphemes, ex. Past tense morpheme ed and plural morpheme s : phonemes smallest unit of sound that can serve to distinguish words in language. Complexity of speech perception: segmentation listener needs to figure out when one sound stops and the next begins in speech, ex. Categorical perception: categorical perception people are much better at hearing differences between categories of sounds than hearing variations within category of sounds, ex. Me tarzan"); or metaphorical sentences like colorless green ideas sleep furiously". Phrase structure: phrase structure rules stipulations that list the elements that must appear in a phrase and (for some languages) specify sequence of those elements, determine overall organization of sentence, tree structure. Prescriptive rules, descriptive rules: prescriptive rules rules describing how language is supposed to be, ex. Like not saying ain"t , using passive voice, or starting sentences with.