PSY 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Underlying Representation, Onomatopoeia, Surface Roughness

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 308
• Professor: Jonathan Wilbiks

Document Summary

Structure of language: underlying representation, what you are trying to convey. The meaning component of language: surface structure, what comes out. Make sure things what you want to convey is clear. Ambiguous phrases: kids make nutritious snacks, milk drinkers are turning to powder, grandmother of eight makes hole in one, time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. I"m not saying sara stole my money (emphases in different words have different meanings) Language acquisition ( : 5 months into pregnancy! ^ ^: mother"s voice is always there: 1-4 day olds prefer to hear speech than non-speech sounds (cid:2652) (cid:1085) (cid:10719) : they also have knowledge of what their mother"s language sounds like, year 1 figuring out phonemes, practice with babbling , tuning vocal tracts, and tuning ears. Analogies and metaphors: james is hard-headed , what does this actually mean, analogies help us understand. Which ones have i used: analogies as persuasion .