PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: African Grey Parrot, Language Acquisition Device, Steven Pinker

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Rules for combining those symbols to generate infinite variety of messages. Symbols allow for people to refer to objects in another place and events that happened another time: language is sematic. The symbols used in language are arbitrary in that no built-in relationship exists between the look and sound of the word to its meaning. Pen in english, stylo- in french and pluma in. We are capable of generating meanings by placing words in different orders and such. There is an infinite possibility of generating novel messages: language is structured. Even though there is an infinite possibility of combining words to create new messages, there are rules which must be followed. The swimmer jumped into the pool not pool the into the jumped swimmer . Phonemes: the smallest speech units in a language that can be distinguished perceptually, in other words: they are the pronunciations of letters in different words . A is differently pronounced in father had call and.