[LING 1P92] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (40 pages long)

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Lecture 1: an introduction to language, animal communication & psycholinguistic research. Whereas all organisms pass on information to other members of their species, only humans use language. 7 characteristics of language: communicative, directed at others. A: must have the 7 characteristics of language. Is language an ability that is uniquely human: honey bees waggle dance. Straight part represents where nectar is relative to sun. Can we teach language to animals: washoe. Got a female chimp & taught her signs by molding hands into signs. Drill & reward: nim chimpsky & washoe, koko. Combined sign for water & bird for swan. Produced sentences with max length of 10-15 words. Gorilla known for having learned a large number of hand signs from a modified version of american sign language. Smallest speech-sound unit that effects meaning of word. Morphemes smallest unit of language that carries linguistic meaning. Lecture 5: accessing words from the lexicon, (chapter 6: words)

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