PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: American Sign Language, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Language Processing In The Brain
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Psych 111: introduction to psychology - lecture 8: chapter seven- language and. Rules of combination of words and context that allow for communication. Smallest units of sounds which can be distinguished. Smallest units of meaning in a language. Rules that specify how units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages. Underlying rules of order/function for how words can be combined to form phrases and sentences. Gleason used not real words and had children apply their knowledge of grammar to these words. Grammatical rules incorrectly generalized to exception case. He bringed the cake to the party. Data does provide support for this theory. Hard-wired to sort input from 20-80 phonemes. Can lose the 20-80 phonemes after 12 months. Chomsky believes languages differ only in surface structure. The ability to comprehend, process, and integrate the meaning of language. Children usually have a greater capacity for receptive speech. Cookie now instead of i would like a cookie now, please .
