PSYC 100 : Objectives Semester 2.docx

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

Document Summary

Identify the three key properties of human language. Semanticity: the extent to which a language can use symbols to transmit meaningful messages. Generativity: the ability to combine words or symbols of a language using rules of composition and syntax to communicate an almost infinite variety of ideas using a relatively small vocabulary. Displacement: the ability to convey a message that is not tie to the current time and place: describe the components of language: phonemes, morphemes, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Phonemes: the basic distinctive speech sounds in a language that distinguish one sound from another. Morphemes: the smallest unit of meaning in language. Syntax: grammatical rules of a particular language for combining words to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. Semantics: the relationship between words and their meanings. Overlapping phonemes: as the tongue positions itself for the next sound it is involved in, the position/sound sounds acoustically different.