PSY BEH 11B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10.1-10.2: Noam Chomsky, Relate, Prototype Theory
10 Nov 2015
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The building blocks of language / how language conveys. The building blocks of language: languages consist of a hierarchy of unit types which combine and recombine to form higher level categories innumerable new thoughts. The sound units: phoneme: the smallest significant unit of sound in a language. Morphemes and words: morphemes: the smallest significant unit of meaning in a word (e. g. , the word boys has two morphemes, boy and s) Content morphemes and function morphemes: content morphemes: a morpheme that carries the main semantic and referential content of a sentence. Some function morphemes cannot stand alone, must be joined with others to make up a complex word. Ed, -er ( one who ), -s ( more than one ) Constraints on sequence: content and function morphemes are processed in different ways during normal language activities. There is a difference between people"s prescriptions for how language should be v. how it really is (dialect of most prestige/social cachet)
