Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Lewis Terman, Intellectual Disability, Motor Coordination
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Language a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can produce an almost infinite number of possible messages and meanings. Symbolic: uses sounds, written signs, or gestures to refer to objects, events, ideas, and feelings. Displacement capacity of language to represent objects and conditions that aren"t physically present. Structure: has rules that govern how symbols can be combined to create meaningful communication units. Generative: symbols can be combined to generate an almost infinite number of messages. Surface structure consists of the way symbols are combined within a given language. Syntax the rules for the combination of symbols. Deep structure refers to the underlying meaning of the combined symbols. Semantics the rules for connecting the symbols to what they represent. Rules transform meaning of the deep structure to sequence of the surface structure. Sentence phrases words morphemes phonemes. Phonemes smallest units of sound recognized as separate in a given language.