PSYC 100 Lecture : PsychNotes.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Elaine Power

Document Summary

Semanticity: the extent to which a form of communication can meaningfully represent ideas, events, and objects symbolically. Generativity: the ability to use a limited number of words and a few rules to combine words into virtually an unlimited number of sentences. Here and now and can not talk about the python they scared off last week. All languages have syntactical rules (grammar) which are certain principals that allow us to combine words into phrases, clauses, or sentences. Syntactical rules are learned implicitly (they can not be described verbally) Pragmatics is the social use of language (talk to a police officer and your friend differently, irony, sarcasm. Prince william put the wedding band on kate"s finger . No one is concerned about kate-s hand under the weight of all those musicians. Understanding of semantic rules can be attributed to that, and therefore have a great impact on the compensation of a language. Articulators: the mouth and structures that make speech sounds.