PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Coevolution, Principle Of Compositionality, Music Therapy
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Five key aspects of language: phonetic: the articulation of speech sounds, morphology: how speech sounds are put together into words. Example: in english some speech sounds cannot be put together: syntax: how words are structured. Productivity of language: capacity to produce indefinitely large number of sentences and understand. Syntax allows accuracy to make specific claims about the world. Ex: mary loves peter; peter loves mary: increase in specificity: quality and quantity, vast increase in the range of what an individual can think about. Linguistics attempts to find out the basic elements and rules that explain both the productivity and specific of language. Connection made to other aspects of life: music, language, and gesture: stephen mithen argued in his hypothesis that language and music evolved from a similar source (common ancestor . Language and music comes naturally (although literacy is not natural) singing is universal in every culture: thompson and schlaug uses melodic intonation therapy.
