Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Auditory Learning, Psycholinguistics, Universal Grammar

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- Dehoog

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Mental representation: cognitive representations of the world, including images, ideas, concepts and principles that are the foundations of thinking and problem solving. Adaptive functions of language: according to anthropologists, the brain probably achieved its current form around 50, The spanish word for dog is perro , and when spoken there is nothing about how this word sounds that makes it an intrinsically correct choice for representing the concept of dog . In english, any given word could have been used to represent dog , but they weren"t. Eaten by sam the cake was: sometimes a sing surface structure may give 2 deep structures, ex. Ex. sounds associated with th a and t can be combined to for a 3-phoneme word that : phonemes have no inherent meaning, but they alter meaning when combined with other elements. Ex. the phoneme l and d alter the meaning when attached to.