PSYCH 2H03 Lecture 17: PSYCH 2H03 - Lecture 17
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Examinable: dr. karin humphries video for midterm 3. Lots of complex rules that we can do automatically: we have a tendency to assume language processing is easy, before you speak you have to formulate what you"re going to say in your brain. It is an incredibly complex system that is mastered by babies remarkably quickly: only species on earth that has mastered language. How hard is speaking: during the course of this day, you might say about 20,000 words, these will be chosen from a vocabulary of approx. Different representational levels: discourse: "i saw two dogs, discourse is the idea you"re trying to speak. Prescriptive: what you ought to do, some set of "rules" Descriptive: what the language actually is, syntax nothing to do with meaning but how we structure, prosody tone of voice (i. e question raise at end of sentence)
