Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Morpheme, Phoneme, Psych
15 Jun 2016
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Anatomy: vocal cord vibrate and lips and cavities modulate these vibrations. Generativity: ability to use finite number of words and rules to produce infinite number of sentences. Displacement: convey information about other times and places. Basic units : english 45, hawaiian 13. Most anything in english can be said with a vocabulary of 850 words. Telephone conversations: 96% of talk made up of 737 words. Correlation word frequency and word length + -0. 75. Arranging the elements in a meaningful way. Kids who are older have the ability to appreciate ambiguous meaning and logical inconsistency. Meaning word for word, how you interpret something. Kids progress from phonological and lexical to syntactic and semantic. Surface structure ( sequence of words) vs deep structre (actual meaning) Rules to transform the meaning into sentences. Yes child does learn that dog: not perro or chien applie sin english. By two months, infants show : phoneme discrimination. Steve jusczyk (1985) sucking rates for pa vs ba.
