PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Phoneme, Sign Language, Language Development

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Is symbolic organized system to represent concepts symbolically and communicate ideas: language stimuli meanings and concepts, oral language stimuli are sounds which formulate words. This is when the item is not present in your environment. Involves arbitrary associations: sounds to meanings has an arbitrary association, this allowed diff languages to have different words for the same item, onomatopoeia sound is inherent with its meaning, word imitates the meaning. Is productive: phonemes smallest sound units of language (around 40 in english, words combination of phonemes (around 500 000 in oxford dict. , phonemes are combined to make words and words are combined to make infinite sentences. Is rule-giverned: the infinite number of combination of words fallow a defined set of rules in order to make sence, rules in different languages are different about the combination of symbols(phonemes) Particular language used by people can shape thought. Problems: linguistic data differs metaphors are subjective and anecdotal [database of these differences has not been established]

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