PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pragmatics, Kanzi, Morpheme
17 Jun 2015
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Introduction to language: sounds, combination of sentences, and abstractness of language, psychologists consider only human language to be language, most complex form of communication, to classify a form of communication, several important criteria must be met, regular: is governed by rules and grammar, sentence can be reorganized and still retain its meaning because a system of rules details how each word fits with the one around it, arbitrary: lack of resemblance between words and their meaning, sound assigned to represent a concept is completely arbitrary, ex. Native development in youngest learners infants actively experiment with sound combinations that have never been explicitly taught: language is symbolic, user must understand that various language stimuli represent different meanings and concepts, in oral language, the relevant stimuli are the sounds that you emit in the form of words, relevant stimuli represent the concept as a whole, language provides an organized system to represent concepts symbolically and communicate simple/complex ideas about them.
