PSY374H5 Study Guide - Garden Path Sentence, List Of Poker Hand Categories, Pragmatics
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Properties of language language is: communicative. O evolutionary psycholinguistics: psychological study of language: what linguistic knowledge is involved in language use? can be tacit or explicit. Phonology: 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. Whereas linguistics approach lang in a rationalistic manner, the psychological approach is more empirical. 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) Many signs resemble the objects or activities that they refer to. Np vp. Red swiss clocks tick noisily. Some examples of transformational rules are: particle- movement transformation john phoned up the woman. Vp - > v + part + np john phoned the woman up. Vp - > v + np + part passive transformation.
