Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Penis Envy, Broccoli, Eidetic Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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All spoken language is nothing more than producing sounds produced by the lungs which vibrates the vocal cord and comes in contact with the palate, lips, tongue etc. which produces all the sounds. As long as we share the common code we can understand it. Ability to use finite number of words and rules to produce infinite number of sentences. Meaningful language is semantic, the words that we use communicates something and we can. Convey information about other times and places past, future we can put into language and is. Language is structured generates rules and production based on each language. Understanding without experiencing used to convey certain concepts. Good, unabridged dictionary 250, 000 to 300, 000 words. Most anything in english can be said with a vocabulary of 850 words. Telephone conversations: (cid:891)(cid:888)% of (cid:498)talk(cid:499) made up of (cid:889)(cid:885)(cid:889) words. Syntax is arranging the elements in a (cid:498)meaningful(cid:499) way. Noun phrases have two parts (article and nominal)