PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Verbal Behavior, Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics

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

Document Summary

Topic 1: defining language: describe the essential properties of language-that is, what makes language different from other communication systems (i. e. , semanticity, generativity and displacement), describe the components of language: phonemes, morphemes, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Semanticity: extent to which a language can use symbols to transmit meaningful messages: used in the study of language, onomatopoeia: words that sound like what they mean (buzz, whack) Displacement: ability to use language to convey messages that are not tied to immediate context (time/ place) but instead communicates information about events in the past, future, or some other location. Linguistics: study the rules" of language: psycholinguistics: study verbal behaviour and cognition, acquisition, comprehension, and production of language. Important for comprehension: example: once tom got his bow, the violinists could begin, , the bow means the item used to play the entrustment and not a weapon.