Psychology 1000 Midterm: Psych 1000 - Midterm 3 Lecture Notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr. Mike Atkinson

Document Summary

Pushing air through a set of strings in order to communicate with each other. Anatomy- vocal cords (at bottom, they vibrate), all the other cavities and the. Semanticity- language is meaningful, there are semantics in language. If you say this is a chair, it is denoting something in the world. Generativity- ability to use a finite number of words and rules to produce. Displacement- ability to convey information about other times and places gives you the rules for the particular language. Most phone talk is made up of 737 words (they shorten things, same with texting), correlation between word frequency and word length= - 0. 75 (the longer the word is, the less likely the word is used) To determine if something is a language, it must have some of these. Arranging the elements in a (cid:498)meaningful(cid:499) way, gives us the understanding. Colourless green ideas sleep furiously (cid:523)grammatically correct but we don(cid:495)t.