PSY BEH 11B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: American Sign Language, Bird Vocalization, Cognitive Flexibility
29 Mar 2018
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Talk, bake: content morphemes, a morpheme that carries the main semantic and referential content of a sentence, usually nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs in english, a morpheme that adds time, mode, individuation, grammar, etc, function morphemes, ex. The theory that mental representations of word meanings consist of a necessary and sufficient set of semantic features: ex. A statement and a question have different tones. 404-423: wild children, 2 kids found raised by wolves, sharp teeth, ate raw meat, howled, etc, could barely learn language, asl, american sign language, the manual-visual language used by most of deaf persons in the. Birds learn their bird song between day 7th and 60th of their life. Terms for snow in eskimo languages are abundant so they see snow differently than us and can make finer distinctions among different types of snow: actually false tho, english has more snow-related words.
