PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Aphasia, How We Think, Fallacy

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Psya02 most social species have systems of communication that allow them to transmit messages to. Language: a system for communicating with others using signals that are combined according. Grammar: a set of rules that specify how the units of language can be combined to produce. Allows for exchange of information coordinate group action form strong social bonds. Human language might have evolved from other species" signalling system. We use language to name, categorize and describe things to ourselves when we think. Influences the organization of knowledge in our brains. Language and communication: from rules to meaning each other to rules of grammar and convey meaning meaningful messages. Differs in the way in which they are produced. Phonemes are combined to make morphemes: the smallest meaningful units of language. Phonological rules: indicate how phonemes can be combined to produce speech sounds. Learn these rules without instruction -> sound odd -> accent.