PSYC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Language Development, Soft Palate, Pragmatics

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Language: socially agreed upon, rule-governed system of arbitrary symbols that are used to convey ideas of past, future, and present, real or fictitious. Language: method of communicating about emotions, thoughts, and ideas. Only works if both parties of the conversation understand what is going on. Semanticity: the extent where communication can convey and represent ideas. Semantics is also the relationship between words and their meanings. Generativity: how language uses a small vocabulary and combines words, symbols, and rules to communicate an idea. Things such as the ability to create new sentences and music notes combined in different phases are examples of generativity. Displacement: ability to use language to convey ideas in a different time period other than right now. Phonology: the rules that govern the patterns of the sounds of the language. Free morphemes can be standalone words, while bound morphemes only have meaning when attached to some other word.