PSYCH 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Noam Chomsky, Speech Segmentation, Frontal Lobe
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A system of communication using sounds or symbols that enables us to express our feelings, thoughts, ideas and experiences. Hierarchical in nature: consists of small components that can be combined to form larger units. Governed by rules: arranging components in certain ways. Development of the study of modern language. Noam chomsky (1957) identification of areas in frontal and temporal lobes tat are involved in aspects of language. Verbal behavior; language learnt through behaviorist reward and punishment strategies. Syntactic structures, genetic basis of language learning psycholinguistics (-now) psychological study of language. 4 major concerns of psycholinguistics: comprehension: how people understand spoken and written language, speeech production: how people poruce language, representation: how language is represented in brain and mind, acquisition: how people learn language. A person"s knowledge of the semantics, phonetics and usage of words. Components of words: phonemes shortest meaningful segment of speech lexicon. B) morphemes smallest (grammatically) meaningful unit of language.
