PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Operant Conditioning
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Language our spoken, written or gestured works and the way we combine them to communicate meaning. Language is interpersonal: it is designed for exchange of meanings and information in a social group. Language is meaningful: elements express meaningful concepts such as rabbit , red or run . Language is structured: specific combinations and sequences alter the meaning. Psycholinguistics: study of mental mechanisms that make it possible for people to use language. Phoneme: shortest segment of speech, which, if changed, would change the meaning of a spoken word; bit, bait, beet. Only 60 phonemes necessary to account for all worlds" languages. F in fire, s in sit, e in eat, e in help, m in my, gh in enough. Prosody (inflection): give him some help can have a lot of different meanings depending on the way it is said. Next branch of psycholinguistics: rules for relating sounds and meaning. Morphology: principles for constructing complex words (inflexional and derivational)
