LIN 3713 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Language Code, Speech Disorder, Motor Goal
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Language is a socially shared code that uses a conventional system of arbitrary symbols to represent ideas about the world that are meaningful to others who know the dame code. Morphemes are the smallest unit of language that carry meaning, they are combined to create words. Language is a representational tool used for thinking, and this tool permits people to communicate these thoughts to other individuals. Language as a module of human cognition. Modularity is cognitive science theory about how the human mind is organized within the brain structures. A module is a specialized problem-solving device in the brain that responds to information of a restricted type. Modules are termed domain specific because they can process only specific types of information. Some language theorists argue that the human brain contains a language specific module developed solely to process linguistic information.
