PSYC 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics
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Organized way to combine words to communicate. Psychology of our language as it interacts w/ human mind: production and comprehension of language. conventions. Properties: arrangement of words has meaning (ex. Dogs hate cats/cats hate dogs): neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, linguistics language structure and change, communicative language allows us to communicate w/ others, arbitrarily symbolic creates relationship between symbol and what it represents (ex. Cross religion/peace): principle of conventionality meaning of words determined by, principle of contrast different words have different meanings. (ex. There, their, they"re): regularly structured language has structure. Only particularly patterned: generative using rules of language create unlimited number of new words, dynamic nature languages constantly evolve. (ex. Spam weird: phonology phoneme smallest unit of speech, morphology study of word structure. Morpheme smallest unit that had: content morphemes convey core of meaning (ex, function morphemes add nuances to core meaning (ex, syntax rules used to put words together for a sentence.
