PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Verbal Behavior
52
PSYA02H3 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
52 documents
Document Summary
Language: flexible systems that use symbols to express many meanings. Speech and comprehension: the ability to engage in verbal behaviour confers decided advantages on our species. Such as listening and reading profit the experience of others, through talking and writing, we can influence others and as well learn from them . For example, the word pin consists of three phonemes: /p/+/i/+/n: voice onset time: the delay between the initial sound of a consonant and the onset of vibration of the vocal cords. It permits us to distinguish between /p/and /b/, pa and ba. We don"t need to categorize them in specific order: words can be classified as function words and content words, function words: word that conveys little meaning of the sentence but is important in the whole grammatical structure, ex. Prosody is extremely important in language comprehension because so much of our communication relies on spoken forms: relation between semantics and syntax:
