PSYCH320 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sociolinguistics, Noam Chomsky, Pragmatics

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH320
• Professor: Katherine White

Document Summary

Elements of language o o o o o o o o o o o o o o. Computational models build robots, put assumptions of what knowledge kids have, feed in input similar to what kid would get from parents, see what model does/ if outcome is realistic o o o o o o. No language or variety of a lang (dialect) is superior to any other in a linguistic sense all equally complex & can make an infinite set of sentences to express any thought o o o o o o o o o o o o. How to discriminate & categorize these sounds o o o o o o o o o o. English has a huge range of syllable types while hawaiian is limited (only make syllables out of vowels or consonant o vowels, don"t have all the same sounds ex) slide 5 o o o o o o o o o o o o another)