PSYC 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Korean Shamanism, Visual Cortex, Reinforcement Learning
13 Nov 2017
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Language chapter 12 psyc 251: the function of the human language is to influence people behaviour by changing what they know, think, believe or desire. Hierarchical organization of language: all languages have different phonemes. Morphemes: the smallest single unit that has beaning, a combination of phonemes. Examples: prefix, suffixes, roots or entire words: there are thousands of morphemes per language. Talk-ed, play-er-s have 2 and 3 morphemes respectively. Phrases: organized grouping of one or more words: phrases are important for combining into sentences. Syntax: language specific rules for combining phrases or words into sentences: a limitless number or phrases per language. Noam chomsky: father of modern lunguistics: language learning must be with a set of rules (grammar) that can be applied in generative ways. Gammar includes: rules for language structure including, morphology: the rules for combining morphemes into words - remember morphemes are suffix, roots or prefixes, syntax: rules for combining words into phrases into sentences.
