PSYCH 1X03 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Morpheme, Pragmatics
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Words used to represent concepts in language are made up and arbitrary. Onomatopoeia is an exception to this component, since the word represents an actual. Same concept can be represented by different words in other languages. sound. With the limited set of sound combinations and words in a language, a potentially infinite number of expressions can be made, including completely novel expressions. Rules about what makes sense exist between languages, despite language"s productive nature. Analysing the morphemic structure of language can reveal information about its origins and development. Morpheme that is broken up into its constituent sounds. Transparent orthographies: the more transparent orthographies a language contains, the. Languages typically use a set of around 30 - 50 phonemes. fewer associations between letters and phonemes must be learned. Rules that govern how we put words together to form a sentence. Overregularizations: common in children when developing the rules of language.
