PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Learning Theory, Phoneme, Random Assignment
29 Aug 2016
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It is arbitrary: a random assignment of symbols to represent an idea. Language is productive: limitless ways to recombine words to produce new sentences: seen in infants. Lack of resemblance between words and their meanings. Language in uences our thoughts and they way we perceive the world: not discriminating between objects with language, and therefore not discriminating between objects and languages. Evidence that counter: the same word means male relatives, but the people understand the differences. Morphemes: the smallest units of sound that contain information, often a word, but some words contain multiple morphemes ex: table is one morpheme, tablecloth is two morphemes. Table=1, s=1 a signle morpheme needs to make sense/contain. Phonemes: break downs of morphemes--->alphabets: can make up words with no meaning at all. Syntax: grammar: how the sentences are put together. Semantics: the meaning of each individual word: so a sentence may have syntax but no semantics.
