PSY 3136 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Inflection, Psamtik I, Sign Language

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Text: systematic and conventional use of sounds (or signs or written symbols) for the purpose of communication or self-expression. Oed: the system of spoken or written communication used by a particular country, people, community, etc. , typically consisting of words used within a regular grammatical and syntactic structure. Psycholinguistics: approach taken in the course, summarized by one word:______, discovered through experimental methods and observation. Parts of language: phonetics and phonology: the constituent sounds of a language, semantics: meanings of words, lexicon: vocabulary and knowledge of derivational morphology/compounding (word building, grammar: the structural organization of words and morphemes (inflectional morphology) Syntax: pragmatics: communicative function, sociolinguistics: transmittal of information to others in socially appropriate ways, much overlap. Language development: 5-year-olds are old fogies. o, why study language, extremely complex, so need to explain its fast acquisition. History of language research: origin stories: mythologies/religions of many cultures have language origin stories.

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