Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Metamemory, Psycholinguistics, Phoneme

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Properties of language: language is symbolic and structured, the symbols used in any given language are arbitrary, grammar: a set of rules that dictate how symbols can be combined to create meaningful units of communication, syntax: the rules that govern the order or words, language conveys meaning, once people learn arbitrary symbols or grammatical rules, they are able to form and then transfer mental representations to the mind of another person, semantics: the meaning of words and sentences, language is generative and permits displacement, generativity: the symbols of language can be combined to generate an infinite number of messages that have novel meaning, displacement: the fact that language allows us to communicate about events and objects that, language fress us from being restricted to focusing on events and objects that are right before are not physically present us in the present.