PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Metalinguistic Awareness, Steven Pinker
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Pen in english, stylo in french and pluma in spanish are arbitrary: ex. You make up sentences everyday that you have never heard before: rules govern the arrangement of words into phrases/sentences, structured sentences must be organized in a particular way. The structure of language: phonemes - the smallest speech unit in a language that can be distinguished perceptually, we may only recognize about 100 basic sounds, phonemes vary by language; english = approx. 40 phonemes: morphemes - smallest units of meaning in a language, in english, approx. Milestones in language development: moving toward producing words. Language: turning thoughts into words: cognitive mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge. 348-391) objects or actions than it is meant to. Culture, language and thought: benjamin lee whorf: advocate of language relativity - hypothesis that one"s language determines the nature of one"s thought, the research evidence suggests that thought shapes language more than vice versa.
