PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Word Superiority Effect, Speech Segmentation, Psycholinguistics
24 Mar 2016
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No t e b o o k: cognitive psych. Language: a system of communication using sounds or symbols that enables us to express ourselves. It is possible to create new and unique sentences because language is hierarchical and governed by rules. When deaf children are in an environment where nobody speaks or uses sign language, they create their own sign language. All humans with normal capacities develop language and follow its complex rules. All languages have nouns and verbs, and all languages include a system to make things negative, to ask questions, and to refer to the past and present. Psycholinguistics: the field concerned with the psychological study of language. Lexicon: a person"s knowledge of what words mean, how they sound, and how they are used in relation to other words. Phoneme: the shortest segment of speech that, if changed, changes the meaning of a word. Indicated by phonetic symbols that are set off with slashes.
