PSY 12000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Long-Term Memory, Availability Heuristic, Family Resemblance

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 12000
• Professor: Susan Swithers

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Describe each of the three aspects of grammar (phonology, Grammar; the rules of language that enable the communicator to combine symbols to convey meaning. Phonology: the rules for combining sounds to make words. Syntax: the rules for combining words to make sentences. We use semantics to pick the appropriate words (people can sleep furiously but ideas cant) and to infer connections bw words and other things in memory: describe the hierarchical nature of language. Phoneme: the smallest significant sound units in speech. No simple relationship bw a given letter of the alphabet and a phoneme. Ex. letter e sounds different in word head and heat. Morphemes: the smallest units in a language that carry meaning. Ex. cool, hip, but they can also be prefixes and suffixes. Cool has 1 morpheme but uncool has 2. Average english speaker knows and uses somewhere between 50,000 and.