PSYA02H3 Chapter : Language
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Prologue do animals have language? y we don t really know if animals have language . but there was a chimpanzee named washoe who was a female and learned sign language; by the time she was 4 she had a vocab. Of more than 130 signs (previous attempts failed because chimps used signs not words because since. Chimps don t have vocal cords they cant really produce complex sounds) they kind of leanred like children learn when they learn to sign. detailed information usually begins with phoneme (the minimum unit of sound that conveys meaning in a particular language such as the word pin consists of three phonemes /p/ + /i/ + /n/ phenomes combine to form morpheme which is the smallest unit of meaning in language . In addition to learning the units of speech, we also learn its content.
