PSY-3217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Phrase Structure Grammar, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Universal

• School: App State
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY-3217
• Professor: christopherdickinson

Document Summary

Shared: system used by all members of a culture. Communication: system used to convert internal meaning into symbols; translate symbols to meaning. How to understand language use: how to approach: consider units of language and the rules we use to combine them and interpret combinations. Phoneme: basic unit of sound in a language. Morpheme: basic unit of meaning (root words, prefixes, and suffixes) Grammar: rules that indicate how to combine phonemes, morphemes, words, & phrases. Used to generate and interpret language: consider two different approaches along the way: Linguistics: the study of the structure of language. This doesn"t take the human element into account. Psycholinguistics: the study of language produced by people. Focus is on the function of language; takes the producer into account (i. e. , working memory, ltm access) Darker = louder: speech segmentation: the process of dividing the speech signal into words.