PSYC 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Eleanor Rosch, Linguistic Relativity
30 Jan 2018
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Language = a system for communicating with others using signals that are combined according to rules of grammar and convey meaning. Grammar = a set of rules that specify how the units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages. All languages share a basic structure involving a set of sounds and rules for combining those sounds to produce meanings. Phonological rules = indicate how phonemes can be combined to produced speech sounds. If violated, resulting speech sounds odd: described as speaking with an accent. Morphemes = the smallest meaningful units of language: made from combing phonemes, ex: pat. Ex: a simple syntactical rule in english is that every sentence must contain one or more nouns, which may be combined with adjectives or articles to create noun phrases. Must also contain one or more verbs, which may be combined with adverbs or articles to create verb phrases.
