PSYC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Vocal Tract, Vocal Folds, Sunk Costs
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Properties of language: events, ideas: symbolic: spoken and written words represent objects, actions, semantic: meaning that words impart. Connotation: emotional overtomes and secondary implications: generative: an in nite number of combinations, structured: phonemes, morphemes, The sounds of out language in uenced by vocal tract (lips, teeth, tongue placement, vibration of vocal cords etc. ) probably around 100 total, 40-45 in english: morphemes: menu items. The smallest units of meaningful speech convey information about semantics: meaning derived from words and sentences either standalone root words (friend, dog) modify other words (e. g. rewrite, pinkish: syntax: putting together the meal. Grammatical rules by which we construct sentences word order, sentence structure morphological markers (ed, ing: extralinguistic information: overall dining experience. Elements of language critical to interpret meaning eg facial expressions and tone of voice. Distinguish language vs nonlanguage can distinguish all phonemes. Babbling: internal vocaliation that can lack speci c meaning: 6-18 months, 10-13 months. Children learn though imitation, reinforcement, etc. wada- wata, water.
