PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Soltyrei, Confirmation Bias, Nootropic

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 202
• Professor: Jeffrey B.Henriques I I I

Document Summary

Language: a system for communicating with others using signals that are combined according to rules of grammar and that convey meaning. Grammar: a set of rules that specify how the units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages. Phonemes: the smallest units of sound that are recognizable as speech, rather as random noise. Phonological rules: indicate how phonemes can be combined to produce speech sounds. Ex: the initial sound ts is acceptable in dutch but not in english. These are usually learned subconsciously and when we hear someone break them, we consider it an accent. Morphemes: the smallest meaningful units of language (combinations of phonemes) Morphological rules: indicate how morphemes can be combined to form words. Content morphemes: refer to things and events (dog, cat, take, run) Function morphemes: serve grammatical functions (and, or, but) These are what allow us to make human language complex enough to permit us to express abstract ideas.