PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Phoneme, Categorical Perception, Coarticulation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill Atkinson

Document Summary

A form of communication must have these 3 key properties in order to be considered language: Semanticity: the extent to which a form of communication can meaningfully represent ideas, events, and objects symbolically. Generativity: use a limited number of words and rules to generate an unlimited number of sentences. Displacement: can convey messages about things not happening right here and now. Phonology: rules that govern the sounds of a language. Phonemes: minimum units of sound that convey meaning in language. Phonological rules govern how phonemes can be combined. Phonemic discrimination: perception of phonemes is affected by the sounds that follow them. Morphology: how morphemes can be used and combined. Free morphemes can stand alone and still have meaning. Bound morphemes must be attached to other morphemes to have meaning. Syntax: rules for combining words to form phrases and sentences. Cues: word order: identifies what is doing the action, what is the action, etc. o o o.