PSYC 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Psycholinguistics, Surface Roughness, Phoneme
20 Nov 2012
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Four structures that are essential to any language: structure, meaning, symbols, generativity. The symbols of language can be combined to generate an infinite number of messages that have novel meaning. Grammar; the set of rules that dictate how symbols can be combined to create meaningful units of communication: syntax; the rules that govern the order of words, semantics; the meaning of words and sentences. Displacement; the fact that language allows us to communicate about events and objects that are not physically present: time, objects, people, and events that currently exist or are taking place elsewhere incl. imaginary situations. Surface structure; symbols that are used and their order. Deep structure; the underlying meaning of the combined symbols: grammar vs. semantics. Phoneme; the smallest unite of speech sound in a language that can signal a difference in meaning. Morphemes; the smallest units of meaning in a language (incl. pre/suffixes: the stuff of which words are formed.
