PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pistachio Ice Cream, Psycholinguistics, 18 Months

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

Document Summary

Communicating information: language is a method for communicating information, including ideas, thoughts, and emotions, other methods include dance, flower arrangements, body signals. Comprehension: information can only be communicated if both the sender and the receiver understand what"s going on. Semanticity: the extent to which a language can use symbols to transmit meaningful messages. Human language is semantic, no matter what language or idiom is used. So are languages such as sign language or braille. Generativity is when language has to combine a limited number of words and a few rules to convey many ideas. A form of communication must have the property of generativity. We use a limited number of works and a few rules to combine words into a virtually unlimited number of sentences. The boy hit the ball and the ball hit the boy contain the same words but have very different meanings. You don"t have to hear the sentence before to know what it means.