Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Window Blind, Transformational Grammar

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

Document Summary

I know that you believe you understand what you think i said, but i"m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what i meant - richard m. Language is meaningful (structure and phrases have meanings) Ability to use finite number of words & rules to produce infinite number of sentences. Convey information about other times and places (in terms of time and space. When you tell me something i can experience it too) Language is structured (structure helps language to carry out meaning) Word: the, strangers (3 morphemes, strange, er and s). phoneme (tells you how to pronounce it- streynj, er, z, doesn"t have meanings) Meaningful units of words (be able to know how many morphemes there are in a word, will be on exam) Morpheme- strange, er, s (break down, plural and negative etc. it changes the total meaning sometimes,, like putting negative un, in, dis in front)