PSYC 100 Lecture 11: psych week 11

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

What is language: types of linguistic knowledge, language and the brain. None of these what makes something language. Language is symbolic idea that we have words like carrot and it represents something orange the sounds we make aren"t necessarily linked to meaning. Exception = onomatopoeia (where we make the sound we hear) Generativity communitcating with syntax rules and grammatical rules you can make a sentence the blue moose ate pistachio ice cream in. Venice , you can still understand its meaning no matter how weird. Displacement --> allows us to use language to discuss things that happened in a different time going into past or future , can talk about fictional characters tooth fairy , superman -> hypothetical notions. Displacement can refer to things in past/future, mythical. Phonemes are the most basic units of speech sounds can be made of more than one letter sounds that make up our language word sip si and ip sounds.