PSYC 101 Study Guide - Frontal Lobe, Psychological Nativism, Language Acquisition Device
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Language- spoken, written, or gestured signals and the way we combine them together to communicate meaning (semantic value) Phonemes- smallest basic distinctive sound unit (i. e. chug has 3 phonemes- ch, u, Phonological rules- a set of rules that indicate how phonemes can be combined to produce speech sounds (i. e. ts is used in german, but not in english. If it was, we consider it to sound odd, like speaking with an accent) Morphological rules- indicate how morphemes can be combined to form words. Content morphemes refer to things and events (i. e. cat, dog, take) Function morphemes serve grammatical functions, such as tying sentences together (i. e. and, or, but) or indicating time (i. e. (i. e. and, or, but) or indicating time (i. e. when) Free morphemes- can be independent word (i. e. town, horse, class, capital, garbage) Bound morphemes- part of word (prefix, suffix) (i. e. un-, -s, -ish, -ness)
