PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Phoneme, English Alphabet, Oncology

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Language lecture 26: distinguishes us from other living creatures. Consists of symbols that convey meaning: rules for combining these symbols. Symbolic spoken sounds, written words, and gestures represent objects, actions, events, & ideas. Semantic the meaning of words: what they represent arbitrary (demo of word acquisition: generative infinite number of messages generated from finite # of symbols. The hierarchical structure of language: basic sounds are combined into units with meaning combined into words which are combined into phrases which are combined into sentences. Phonology the study of phonemes smallest unit of meaningful sound. 40 phonemes (e. g. , the y sound in you, bay, and feud ) languages differ in. Dmitri - name dvorzak (pronounced dih-voar-jak) - czech surname, music composer vlast - czech word for country ogkos - greek word for swelling (origin of word oncology) tse - chinese surname. Morphology the study of morphemes smallest part of a word that"s meaningful. ~ 50,000 in english root words suffixes, prefixes.