Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Transformational Grammar, Speech Disfluency, Proto-Language

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Olessia Jouravlev

Document Summary

Language is a form of communication that humans use. Rather language is a system of communication that people use. There is a great diversity of languages - 6,500 languages spoken and all of them are d. 300 languages that exist in forms of sign known as sign language. Languages exist in 2 modalities - spoken and sign language. They are not completely independent from ach other. It is a pat of our social life. We use it to communicate with others to express our thoughts and feelings to under. Even when not engaging in social interaction we use language as it is a part of our cognitiv. When we contemplate about situations our thoughts are often in the form of words. Language is one of those cognitive skills that sets us apart from other animals. Although some socially inclined animals use a form of communication, these systems of co multitudes of meanings.