PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Linguistic Relativity, Worf, Bounded Rationality
7 Dec 2016
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Cognition: refers to the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge. What is language language: consists of symbols that convey meaning, plus rules for combining those symbols, that can be used to generate an infinite variety of message language is symbolic, semantic, generative, and structured. Phonemes: the smallest speech units in a language that can be distinguished perceptually. We are capable of learning about 100 phonemes. Morpheme: the smallest unit of meaning in a language there are about 50000 english morphemes which include root words, prefixes and suffixes. Semantics: the area of language concerned with understanding the meaning of words and word combinations. Syntax: a system of rules that specify how words can be arranged into sentences. A sentence must have a subject and verb. Syntax lies in every aspect of language. Moving toward producing words three-month-old infants can distinguish phonemes from all languages because they are so curious. At around eight months, infants recognize and store common word forms.
