Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Morpheme, Phoneme, Baby Talk

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Next time: problem solving (scan p. 332-351) Generativity ability to use a finite # of words & rules to produce infinite # of sentances. Displacement convey info about other times and places. Basic units: english 45, hawaiian 13. Most anything in english can be said with a vocab of 850 words. Telephone conversations: 96% of talk made up of 737 words. Correlation word frequency & word length = -0. 75 (stick to simple words) Comes with formal thinking: order, order in the court: i"ll have a ham & cheese on rye, silence, silence in the court: . Ability to appreciate ambiguous meaning & logical consistency. Confusion or double meaning of words i work as a baker bc i need the dough . Kids progress from phonological & lexical to syntactic & semantic. Deep #1: planes are dangers deep #2: piloting a plane is dangerous. Yes, child does learn the dog not perro or chien applies in english.