Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Jeffrey Rowland, Pragmatics

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Feral children : victor of averyon: leared to read and writ some words but never speak, genie: speaking ability stalled around 2-3 year old level, dominique: made quick process and seemed quite capable of fully acquiring language. Language defined: a shared symbolic system for communication, letters written and spoken symbols that stand for the referent of the word, shared by all speakers of a language culture, system enables communication. Language: processing language= quintessentially human trait, all normal humans speak, children learn a language without formal lessons, main vehicle by which we know about other people"s thoughts. Ambiguous sentences: put the box on the table in the kitchen, time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. Garden path sentences: demonstrates there is a risk to interpreting a sentence as it arrives. Structure of language: surface structure: consists of the symbols that are used and the order.