PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Mecha, Preposition And Postposition, Deep Structure And Surface Structure
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They can communicate with one another (among their species) but they cant really understand language. Washoe the chimp was taught sign language; lack ability to speak and ctrl tongue movements. Learned that verbal ability is a social behav. Language is used to communicate; also used in daily thinking and remembering. Speaking, listening, writing, reading = behav we observe; linguists have rules for language. Psycholinguists: branch of psych devoted to the study of verbal behav. How children acquire language; learning to speak and develop of verbal behav. How adults use lang and verbal abilities to interact with other cognitive abilities: speech and comprehension. Advantage to our species cuz of verbal abilities. We write sentences as a string of words, but when we say them, they come out as sounds with pauses and changes in stress/pitch; rhythmic patterns and continuous. Auditory system enables us to recog speech sounds.
