CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psycholinguistics, Jean Berko Gleason, Waggle Dance

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Barak Caine

Document Summary

Expresses and solidifies social and cultural bonding. Psycholinguistics: psycholinguistics: the study of how sounds and symbols are translated to meaning as shown in behavior, phonemes: smallest units of sounds that are basic structural elements. Sound categories that matter in a language are called its phonemes. Other languages have their own sets of phonemes i. e. s, sh, t, or ooo : morphemes: smallest units of meaning like s being added for plural i. e. ) if the word is talked, morphemes are talk+ed i. e. ) Players = play+er+s: syntax: grammar (a set of rules that govern combining words) Different languages have different grammar rules i. e. she purchased the dog small is improper grammar in english but proper in. Spanish: semantics: the meaning of language i. e. the dorm food is psychotic is grammatically correct but semantically flawed. Discovered the eight-shaped waggle dance of bees that is used for communication. Nonhuman primates chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans have been taught some american sign language.