AUPSY 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Tahiti, Morpheme, Phoneme

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY 263
• Professor: Kathie Bailey

Document Summary

For acquiring and transmitting knowledge and culture. A system of communication using sounds or symbols that enables us to express our feelings, thoughts, ideas, and experiences. We can let others know what we are thinking. You can put your thoughts out there and others can understand that information. The word swim doesn"t look anything like swimming. The word love does not tangibly express love, but we have a word for it. John bought a dog can be expanded with detail. Yesterday, john bought a brown dog and named it sam . We have a vast ability to make an unlimited amount of unique sentences. Forever evolving and new words/meanings are being created. Particular patterns are used for language to be meaningful. Look at the difference between pah and tah . Sentences sequences of words that expresses meaning. Word smallest free form of language that is comprised of morphemes. Each level is composed with meaning of other sublevels.