PSYO 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Function Word, Surface Roughness, Deep Structure And Surface Structure

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 111
• Professor: Shirley Hutchinson

Document Summary

Five cognitive functions: acquiring and using language, forming concepts and categories, making decisions, solving problems, reasoning. Language: system for communicating with others using signal combined according to rules of grammar to convey meaning. Grammar: set of rules that specify how the units of language are combined to produce meaningful messages. Humans can express a wide range of ideas and concepts. Humans use words to refer to intangible/imaginary things (unicorn, democracy) We use language to name, categorise and describe things to ourselves. Phonemes: smallest units of sound recognizable as speech rather than random noise e. g. , ba, pa, ma. Phonological rules: rules for how phonemes can be combined to produce speech sounds; e. g. , ts sounds can be found in german but not in english (there are phonological rules are different for different languages). If something sounds odd we describe it as speaking with an accent. All languages fall into two categories: rules of morphology or rules of syntax.