Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Vocal Folds, Phoneme, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation

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Is language learned: vibrating vocal cords pushing sound through mouth/lips. Semanticity: meaningful, generativity, ability to use an infinite number of words and rules to produce infinite number of sentences, not easy for apes and chimps, displacement, convey information about other times and places, organization, language is structured. Student vocabulary - 150 000: good unabridged dictionary - 250 000 to 300 000, anything in english can be communicated with 850 words, 96% of talk time on the phone is made up of 737 words. Chapter 9: language and linguistics: correlation of world frequency & word length = -0. 75. Longer the word is, the less likely you are to use it: morphemes, meaningful units of speech. Syntax: arranging the elements in meaningful ways, proper structure. Importance of grammar: tells you how to structure your language. Interactions: hi, peekaboo than ceiling: two-word speaker. Starts around 2 years old: telegraphic speech, vocab - several hundred words.

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