PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Frontal Lobe, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Hearing Loss

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sonya Laszlo

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Speech and comprehension: perceiving verbal behaviour, understanding verbal. We can benefit from others experiences and our own. As well, we are able to store our language ( the temporal and spatial boundaries are limitless): most impt. When it was presented preceding iss, people claimed the word as kiss, when presented preceding ift, people perceived the word as gift. Understanding verbal behaviour: syntax (i. e. grammar), semantics (i. e. Understanding verbal behaviour: syntax (i. e. grammar), semantics (i. e. reference) and pragmatics (i. e. world knowledge, shared experiences) Semantics: maps of meanings, representation of the world states: noam chomsky (famous linguist) made critical distinction between surface and deep structure language. It is parallel in meaning to the distinction between syntax and semantics: to be meaningful a sentence must be grammatically correct. Thus, syntax is necessary not sufficient for semantics and in turn, semantics is necessary but not sufficient to understand. Pragmatics: to understand a sentence one requires a relationship to the world.