PSY374H5 Study Guide - List Of Poker Hand Categories, Pragmatics, Soltyrei
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Properties of language language is: communicative, arbitrary, structured, multilayered, productive, evolutionary psycholinguistics: psychological study of language, what linguistic knowledge is involved in language use? can be tacit or explicit. Pragmatics: what cognitive processes are involved in language use? ie. perception, memory, thinking. 1980s: psychologists moved away from directly incorporating linguistic concepts into psychological research: distinct methodologies empirical. Whereas linguistics approach lang in a rationalistic manner, the psychological approach is more. Where does that leave psycholinguistics today increased interest in lang production: not so focused on syntax only; phonology, smantics, pragmatics. 2: neuroimaging of functionally normal brains completing lang tasks, application of psycholinguistic principles to society (ie. reading, bilingualism, lang disorders) Lecture 2: basic grammatical concepts, american sign language, transformational grammar, unresolved controversies. Need to understand the processing characteristics used in language. Language differs in word order ie. english: subject-verb-object (taro gave the book to hanako)
