PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deep Structure And Surface Structure
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* it is among the 3 things that let us dominate the planet; along with bipedalism & frontal. There is a notion that language is a distinctive humanly enterprise this is both true and false. When we talk about language we usually mean what we hear (words) Animals communicate a lot with their body language (ex. barking, pacing around) Human language is different and is a powerful part of who we are as it becomes a notion of what language allows us to do --> ex. it lets us share our minds/knowledge/ideas cortex something) Language allows us to learn things, and once you learn how to do something you usually won"t forget. Receptive language: when you can communicate what you want through words with a constraint set that they have learned in a slow way unlike human language and the way we learn. * it allows to not have to re-discover things over and over again (ex. how to do.
