PSY E202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Categorical Perception, Psych, Panbanisha
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A complex system of rules for combining different kinds of elements. Through the use of finite set or words in our vocabulary. We can put together an infinite number of sentences and express and infinite number of ideas. By the age 5-10 most children are as good at using language as adults are. Elementary units of meaningful sounds used to produce language. The smallest units of meaning composed of one or more phonemes. "i" and "dog" are one morphemes when "dogs" is two morphemes because it has two units. A large set of rules that specifies how words form different categories can be combined. Be a human being and have a brain. A couple raised a chimpanzee in their own household with their own children to see if vicki would learn to speak. Vicki learned to comprehend but not to produce language. Ability to communicate with trainers by mutual signs.
