PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Language Acquisition, Soft Palate, Phoneme

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

Language: a means of communicating information, including ideas, thoughts and emotions. Semanticity: the extent to which a language can use symbols to transmit meaningful messages. Generativity: the idea that we don"t need a word for everything, but instead we combine a few words and rules to convey ideas. Displacement: the ability to convey a message that is not tied to the current time and place. Psycholinguistics: a branch of cognitive psychology devoted to the study of the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language. Phonology: the rules that govern the patterns of sounds that are used in a language - which sounds are used, and how they"re combined. Phonemes: the basic distinctive speech sounds in a language that distinguish one word (e. g. , rice) from another (lice): phonemes can be combined to form morphemes. Morphemes: the smallest unit of meaning in language: there are two types of morphemes: Free morphemes: are meaningful on their own and can stand alone as words ex.