PSYC 100 Study Guide - Social Environment, Nonverbal Communication, Feral Child
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Language is a method for communicating information, including ideas, thoughts, and emotions. Not all forms of communication are considered language however. Semanticity refers to the extent to which a form of communication can meaningfully represent events and objects symbolically. Moderate level: vervet monkeys give calls to warn of specific dangers or predators the alarm calls are basic semantic/symbolic signals because each alarm call seems to mean something to them (low to moderate semanticity) Displacement, or the ability to convey messages that are not tied to an immediate time and place, is needed for a form of communication to be considered language. Phoneme: perceptually distinct units of sound that serve to distinguish one word from another (e. g. p" in pit, t " in cheap, " in measure) Morpheme: the smallest meaningful units in a language made up of phonemes (e. g. in unbreakable" there are three morphemes: un", break", and able")
