PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes -David Wechsler, Appeasement, Motivation
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Psycholinguistics: a branch of psychology devoted to the study of verbal behaviour. Phoneme: the minimum unit of sound that conveys meaning in a particular language, such as /p/ Voice-onset time: the delay between the initial sound of a consonant (such as the puffing sound of the phoneme /p/) and the onset of vibration of the vocal cords. Morpheme: the smallest unit of meaning in language. Syntactical rule: a grammatical rule of a particular language for combining words to form phrases. clauses, and sentences. Function word: a preposition, article, or other word that conveys little of the meaning of a sentence but is important in specifying its grammatical structure. Content word: a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb that conveys meaning. Affix: a sound or group of letters that is added to the beginning of a word (prefix) or t its end (suffix) Semantics: the meanings and the study of the meanings represented by words.
