CHYS 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Noam Chomsky, Eric Lenneberg, Meta-Communication
29 Jan 2018
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Housecleaning: exam after reading week, seminars are cancelled that exam week, exam will have ~100 mc questions. What is language: arbitrariness uses symbols that are not related to the concept that they represent (e. g. , hieroglyphics vs. English letters) your name is an example nothing about a jennifer that makes you jennifer it"s arbitrary: productivity can produce communications that are unique; can express completely novel ideas. Youtube video can only say what it has recorded, not say anything new. Idea: language can be used to create anything you want. We separate out the different components of language. What are the units of sounds that we need to listen to eg. whistle has no meaning. Atypical language development: video 1 203 (s. a. f. ) Syntactic development: syntax rules of grammar, how words are arranged into sentences, word order can play an important role in the meaning of a sentence, negatives children initially attach words of negation to positive sentences.
