PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Foxp2, Universal Grammar, Noam Chomsky

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

Document Summary

Semanicity: the extent to which a form of communicaion can meaningfully represent ideas, events, and objects symbolically. Human language is semanic, same with sign language and braille. Generaivity: language combines a limited number of words and some rules to convey many ideas. Can"t have a single word for every though or idea, generaivity combines words into basically an unlimited number of sentences. Ex: the boy hit the ball and the ball hit the boy are the same words but very diferent meanings. Displacement: ability to use language to convey messages that are not ied to the immediate context (ime and place) but instead communicate informaion about events in the past or future, or at some other locaion. Phonology: rules that govern the sounds, or phonemes of a language . Phonemes disinct units of sound that serve to disinguish one word from another. Phonological rules govern how phonemes can be combined in a given language .