PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics, Noam Chomsky

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Semanticity: the use of symbols to communicate meaning. Displacement: describe events at different points in time don"t just have to talk about the present; can discuss future and past. Phonemes: are the smallest units of speech sounds; they are not the same as the alphabet . Categorical perception: when we perceive some information (like lights) as points along a continuum: with phonemes, there are no shades of grey these are distinct sounds. We interpret them based on frequency (measured in hertz/hz) over time (seconds: english has over 40 phonemes, hawaiian has only 5 vowels and 4 consonants, other languages have over 100 phonemes, point: the parts of language vary. Lexical tone: the way in which we hear the phonemes in a language . Ie) intonation in chinese carries both syntactic and semantic information; has a phonemic status. Lexical stress: denotes emphasis this is not phonemic.