PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Soft Palate, Mondegreen, Speech Perception

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

Document Summary

To be considered a language, a form of communication must have the properties of: Semanticity the extent to which a form of communication can meaningfully represent ideas, events, and objects symbolically. Generativity combining a limited number of words and a few rules to convey many ideas. Displacement the ability to use language to convey messages that are not tied to the immediate context (time and place), but instead communicate information about events in the past or future, or at some other location. Phonology the rules that govern the sounds/phonemes/phonetic letters of a language. Phonemes combine to form morphemes, which can be bound or free. Semantics the meaning of words and the rules that govern those meanings; rules that are crucial for comprehension. Syntax/syntactical rules factors that determine how we combine words to form phrases and sentences. Pragmatics knowledge of the world as it relates to understanding and using language; helps us interpret what others say to us.