PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Natural Language, Phoneme, Speech Segmentation
5 Nov 2016
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Natural language: regular --language is regulated by rules of grammar: sentence still make sense even though sentences are changed, language can be used to transfer information between individuals, ex. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The lazy dog was jumped over by the quick brown fox. Natural language: arbitrary words in language arbitrarily represent what they mean: lack off resemblance between words and their meanings. Saying cat, doesn"t mean it"s cute and furry. Natural language: productive words in language can be combined in many productive ways: limitless ways to describes actions and objects and situations. Language before tie shoes and etc. , they learn their native language with ease. Morphemes the smallest unit of sounds that contain information"s. Often a word, but some words contain multiple morphemes. Morpheme: table is a single morpheme, but tablecloth is 2 morphemes, morpheme can be individual word but some need to be added to others to make sense, ex.
