PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Literacy Test, Grey Matter, Savant Syndrome
28 Mar 2016
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Language is our spoken, written or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning. Language transmits knowledge enables mind to mind information transfer and with it the transfer of knowledge across generations. Symbols include organized patterns of sounds, visual representations and movements. Meaning includes concepts, quantities, plans, identity, etc. Need 3 building blocks for spoken language: phonemes are smallest distinctive sound units in language (vowels and consonants) Consonant phonemes carry more information than do vowel phonemes: morphemes are the smallest units that carry meaning. I and a) but most of them combine two or more phonemes. Bat, pre in preview, and ed in adapted: grammar is the system of rules that enables as we move from one level to the next. How the order of words make meanings. Humans have an amazing facility for language, we learn it really early. We acquire the use of 10 new words per day (on average) between ages 2 and 18.
