PSY 3136 Midterm: PSY3136A - Midterm 1 Study Guide

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3136
• Professor: Christopher Fennell

Document Summary

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. Others: concrete act of speaking abstract system underlying the collective totality of the speech/writing behaviour of a community the biological faculty which enables individual to learn and use their communication systems a defining feature of human behaviour. A city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone. Phonetics and phonology: the constituent sounds of a language. Lexicon: vocabulary and knowledge of derivational morphology/compounding (word building) Grammar: the structural organization of words and morphemes (inflectional morphology) Sociolinguistics: transmittal of information to others in socially appropriate ways. Extremely complex, so need to explain its fast acquisition. Mythologies/religions of many cultures have language origin stories.