PSYC 3260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Mirror Neuron, Temporal Lobe, Phonics
1 Dec 2016
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Language comprehension involves arriving at an ultimately correcy interpretation of linguistic signal produced by a speaker. Psycholinguistics interdiciplinary field that examines how ppl use language to communicate ideas focuses on processes that allow us to produce/comprehend languae and key principles that govern the social norms of naturalistic conversation. Phoneme--basic unit of spoken language such as this sounds a k and. Th: english language has about 40 phonemes, if you change just one phonemes in a word you change the meaning of that word for example kiss has a very different meaning from this. A morpheme is the basic unit of meaning: the word reactivated actually contains for morphine"s, each morpheme segmant contains meaning, so more themes can stand on their own but some must be attached to each other. Morphology the study of morphemes; morphology, therefore examines how we create words by combining morphemes.
