PSYC 427 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Content Word, Phonics, Dyslexia
26 Apr 2017
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Onomatopoeia wham, pop, buzz, hiss (exception to arbitrariness) Gestures, rules of conversation, social conventions, body language, tone of voice, facial expressions. Grammar = set of rules that will generate all acceptable sentences. Dialect = informal rules that change the way language is said. Semanticity = sounds of human language carry meaning. Arbitrariness = no inherent connection between the words and meanings. Flexibility = can have many words for the same thing (i. e. tv, television, telly) Displacement = can use language to communicate info about another place/time. Productivity/generativity = encompasses the creative, novel aspects of language. Language = a shared system for symbolic communication. Linguistic universals = features/characteristics that are common to all known languages; also called design features. Indirect-access hypothesis = words/letters sound/speech code compare with word meanings stored in memory. Direct-access hypothesis = recognize words directly from the printed letters. Increase content words, unfamiliar words, sentence wrap-ups, reassignment of case role, long words, error recovery.
