Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Phoneme, Psycholinguistics

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Definitions: mental representations: images, ideas, concepts, and principles. Psycholinguistics: the scientific study of the psychological aspects of language, such as how people understand, produce and acquire language. Adaptive functions of language: by analyzing prehistoric humans, anthropologists found the following evidence that proved that human thought and behaviour. It took another 35000 years before paintings appeared on cave walls. Language is a powerful learning mechanism and puts the customs and knowledge accrued over generations in easy accesses. Properties of language: language is symbolic and structured. Four properties are essential to any language: symbols, structure, meaning, and generativity. Is zpflrovc an english word, not because it violates the rule that z is not followed by pf) Language allows us to discuss the past, present, and future. Surface structure: consists of the symbols that are used and their order (syntax) ex. The police must stop drinking after midnight) The hierarchal structure of language.