Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Surface Roughness, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Psycholinguistics

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Campbell

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Lecture 1: ch 9 language and thinking pt1. Pervades every facet of our lives, public and private. Every culture, no matter how isolated or primitive has a language. Every person, expect under extreme deprivation/accidents, develops skills in use of language. Letters, written, and spoken symbols that stands for a work. Grammar: rules that dictate combination of units of language. Psycho linguistics: the study of psychological processes involved in producing and comprehending language. Language is a system of symboled and rules. Able to communicate about things from the past. We can talk about past, present, future, or even a made up world. Surface structures: the rules that govern the order of words. Deep structures: refers to the meaning of words and sentences. Ex: eaten by sam the cake was -> syntax is incorrect. In all these examples the surface structures changes but the deep structures remain the same.