PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Heredity, Meta-Analysis, Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
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I can talk about something (an idea, concept, an item) even if it is not physically present. And a person listening could still understand it. i. e. , i can talk about something i did over the weekend, without actually having to teleport back to that time. Arbitrariness: b(cid:396)idge (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) sou(cid:374)ds of la(cid:374)guage a(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat those sou(cid:374)ds (cid:373)ea(cid:374). Ou(cid:374)ds do(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:396)eall(cid:455) (cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)t a(cid:374)(cid:455)thing on their own, we have just decided as a culture that some sounds mean something while other sounds mean something else. Bc sounds are initially arbitrary, we can create new words as long as everyone agrees to it. Productivity: using our cache of words, we can create an infinite amount of sentences to express our ideas. There are a infinite amount of ways to say one thing! Learnability: we are equipped with the ability to learn any language in the world as children as long as we have adequate exposure to it.
