PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Phoneme, Animal Communication, Processing Fluency
28 Mar 2020
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While all languages use different words, formed by combining sounds in different ways, all human languages contain some similar features. All languages use sounds or words, or symbols, to transmit information. The symbols are morphemes - in oral language, these are the smallest units of sound that contain information. In a manual, or sign language, morphemes are identified in units of signs rather than sound. Morphemes themselves can form complete words and a single word can be made up of more than one morpheme. some words contain multiple morphemes. Morphemes: the smallest unit of sound that contains information. For example, the word table is a single word that contains a single morpheme, but the. Not all morphemes can be used as an individual word; some must be added to another word tablecloth is a single word that contains two morphemes (table + cloth). morpheme to make sense.
