PSYCH 3UU3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Shrdlu, Syntactic Category, Psycholinguistics
4 Feb 2014
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Eight functions of language: to communicate, to express emotion, for social interaction, to make use of its sounds (ie. children"s games, to attempt to control the environment, to record facts, to think with, to express identity. Understanding language is important for understanding human behaviour. Psycholinguistics: the study of the psychological process involved in language: study understanding, producing, and remembering language and are concerned with speaking, writing, and memory for language. They are also interested in how we acquire language and the way in which it interacts with other psychological systems. Language: a system of symbols and rules that enable us to communicate (though a formal definition is a waste of time due to all the ambiguities) Morphology: the study of words and word formation. Phonology: the study of how sounds are used within a language. Word: the smallest unit of grammar that can stand alone. Lexicon: mental dictionary all the information that we know about a word.
