PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Phoneme, Pragmatics

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

Document Summary

Provide a brief, original example (one not found in the text, lessons, other online sources, from the lecture, nor found in a friend"s assignment) of each of the following concepts: Nativism and interactionism (explain in your own words) Generativity: when symbols and words are put together to communicate meaningful sentences. I will be there tomorrow, i was there yesterday. Over extention: referring to every woman as mama. Usage of word in a broad manner. Under extention: when seeing a dog in the park they wont refer to it as dog. He will only call his own dog dog . Semantics: meaning of words and the rules that govern those meanings. A human can be referred to as a male, female, child, adult, baby, bachelor, father or mother. Syntax: how we combine words to make phrases/sentences. Pragmatics: knowledge of words as it relates to using and understanding language. Nativism: the belief that grammatical rules in language is innate.