PSYC 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Speed Reading, Language Model, Noam Chomsky
23 Jan 2018
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Language: largely arbitrary system of communication that combines symbols (such as words or gestural signs) in rule-based ways to create meaning. Its sounds, words and sentences bear no clear relation to their meaning. Serves key social and emotional functions because it enables to express out thoughts about social interactions such as conveying. Using and interpreting language usually require litter attention. Phonemes (ingredients): categories of sound our vocal apparatus produces that are influenced by elements of out vocal tract (lips, teeth, tongue placement, vibration of vocal cords, opening and closing of out throat) Morphemes (menu items): smallest units of meaning in a language that are created by stringing phonemes together. Convey information about semantics-derived from words and sentences. Syntax (putting it together): the set of rules of a language by which we construct sentences which includes morphological markers (modify words by adding sounds) and sentence structure.
