PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Phoneme, Parsing, Universal Grammar

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2700
• Professor: Jordan Richard Schoenherr

Document Summary

Sound, syntax, semantics, universals of language, whorf hypothesis. Sound symbolism: onomatopoeia, word imitating sound, not universal; tick tock, katchin katchin. Dictionary definition omits other aspects of lang. : writing or sign language was excluded: writing, recent dev in history of lang. , 5000 yrs, spoken lang. , thought to have occurred 100 000 yrs ago. Writing depended on existence of spoken lang. ; auditory form"s more basic than written version. Written lang. should be included: reading/writing = major forms of communication in modern society. Shared symbolic system for communication: symbolic, symbols stands for something else, referent, shared, agreed upon, sound-meaning connection, rules for decoding/encoding, allows for communication (purpose) That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Parse syntax: looking women husbands young for (ungrammatical, young women looking for husbands (grammatical) Retrieve meaning: wug toagged snarticism (meaningless, he discusses education reform after eeii (meaningful) Phonemes: basic sounds which compose lang. , vowels, consonants.