PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Surface Roughness, Function Word, Deep Structure And Surface Structure
29 Oct 2016
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Psych 202 - lecture 7 - language and thought (9. 28. 16) Human language more complex and allows expression of many ideas and concepts. Language - system for communicating with others using signals that are combined according to rules of grammar to convey meaning (compared to animal communication system which doesn"t have human language complexity) Grammar - set of rules that specify how units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages. Precise semantic content - semantics is the study of meaning. 4000 human languages have basic structure of sound and rules. Phoneme: smallest unit of sound recognizable as speech instead of just sound. Phonological rules: set of rules indicating how phonemes can be combined to produce speech sound. Morphological rules: set of rules indicate how morphemes can be combined to form words. Syntactical rules : rules indicating how words can be combined to form phrases and sentences. Sentences have deep structure and surface structure:
