PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Categorical Perception, Pragmatics, Phoneme
29 Oct 2018
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54% bs and higher for most of the class. Wants us to come to office hours thursdays 2:30-4:30. Don"t forget lab is worth 25% of our grade, get a 100% Bumping # of extra credit lab studies to 12 possible credits. Language is a combination of puffs, squeaks, and noises that our brain transforms into thoughts and ideas. Think abstractly, it is really interesting that we can understand each other through vibrations. Language is distinctly human, one of the only things about the brain that is. Outline: phonology (parts of language), morphology and semantics, syntax and. Next class: language acquisition, language and thought, language and grammar, pragmatics non-human animals. Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized and used in natural languages. We can see how complicated human speech is simply by considering the difficulty of voice recognition technology (alexa, siri, google home)
