PSYCH 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Long-Term Memory, Power Law, Verbal Reasoning
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Psych 240 exam 3 study guide: production: idea, sentence, words, vocal articulation, and sounds, comprehension: sounds, words, phrases, ideas. People communicated ideas by constructing or deconstructing intermediate sounds. Properties of language: symbolic, arbitrary, and generative. The physical combination of sounds do not give the word meaning, it"s the. The sounds of some words convey a little about the meaning, but for most common set of conventions that speakers of a language adopt words, the sound conveys no meaning. Phonemes: smallest unit of speech sound: 40 in english, different phonemes in different languages. Morphemes: smallest unit that signals meaning: prefixes, suffixes, roots, can be entire words, location matters, rules of a language say how they can be combined. Words: combinations of one or more morphemes. Phonological inflection cues that distinguish these may be subtle. Ambiguity results when the same wording corresponds to different meanings. Lexical ambiguity: word has two different meanings.
