Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Transformational Grammar, Surface Roughness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

I know that you believe you understand what you think i said, but i"m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what i meant . You produce language by pushing air up out of your lungs through your vocal cord and you manipulate it with your tongue, lips and nasal cavity. Meaningful: if the sounds don"t mean anything, it isn"t a language. Ability to use finite number of words and rules to produce infinite number of sentences. Convey information about other times and places. Using tenses to talk about the past and talk about places you"ve never been. Differs from language to language, but it must be present. Good, unabridged dictionary has about 250,000 to 300,000 words. Most anything in english can be said with a vocabulary of 850 words. Telephone conversations: 96% of talk is made up of 737 words. The longer the word is, the less likely you"re going to use it.