PSYC 100 Lecture 12: PSYCH 100 week 12 class lecture

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Katherine Fretz

Document Summary

What makes it a language: semanticity - use of symbols to communicate meaning, generatively - communicating new ideas, displacement - not in the here and now. Bee food ritual dance: semanticity - nothing that intrinsically means food, displacement - food source outside of hive, describing where, generatively - dance will always mean the same thing, can"t combine, so not language but close. Psycholinguistics - the study of language ability. Not the same thing as the alphabet. The study of these is called phonology". Categorical perception: no shades of grey in phonemes. Lexical tone: has phonemic status, intonation carries both syntax and semantic info. Wednesday, november 30, 2016: denotes emphasis (which info matters?) Not phonemic: english mostly like this, outside of special cases. Morphemes: smallest unit of meaning, either free (its own word) or bound (eg. a suf x, study of these is called morphology, boy - ish, anti - dis - establish- ment - arian - ism.