PSYC 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Preposition And Postposition, Home Sign, Tripe
Document Summary
Social: used primarily for communication, but not exclusively. Cognitive: language represented, spoken, and understood by individuals. The study of what it means to be human: all humans speak a language. Assuming normal brain development and language input. Language is highly complex, yet we use it with ease: we always anticipate what we think someone is going to say. Rules for identifying who does what: e. g. , the boy is the subject noun, the doer in this sentences. The boy threw a rock at the girl, then he saw her duck . The boy means a unique/identifiable and singular boy. A rock means a non-unique and singular rock. Processes for integrating non-linguistic information to help solve ambiguities, interpret wider meaning: if you were primed with a picture of a duck, you will think it was a quacking duck not an action in the sentence.
