Psychology 1000 Chapter 9: Key in Textbook
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Properties of language: symbols, structure, meaning, generativity, displacement. Language is symbolic and structured: language uses sounds, written characters, or some other system of symbols (e. g. , hand signs) to represent objects, events, ideas, feelings, and actions. Moreover, the symbols used in any given language are arbitrary: grammar is the set of rules that dictate how symbols can be combined to create meaningful units of communication. Language conveys meaning: semantics: the meaning of words and sentences. 2/18: when express thoughts, transform deep structure into a surface. The hierarchical structure of language: phoneme: the smallest unit of speech sound in a language that can signal a difference in meaning. The role of bottom-up processing: bottom-up processing: individual elements of a stimulus are analyzed and then combined to form a unified perception. Use of phonemes to create morphemes and the combination of morphemes to create words.
