PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Function Word, English Units, Surface Roughness
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Language: a system for communicating with others using signals that are combined according to rules of grammar and to convey meaning. Human language is more complex, involves words representing intangible things, and is used to think and conceptualize (different than other animal species) Grammar: a set of rules that specify how the units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages. There are approximately 4,000 human languages (all have basic structure of sounds. The complex structure of human language and rules). Phoneme: the smallest unit of sound that is recognizable as speech rather than random noise. Phonological rules: a set of rules that indicate how phonemes can be combined to produce speech sounds. Morphological rules: a set of rules that indicate how morphemes can be combined to form words. Syntactical rules: a set of rules that indicate how words can be combined to form phrases and sentences. Phonemes: the elementary units of sound that distinguish meaning.
