Language Flashcards
Language Universals
1) semanticity
2) arbitrary
3) flexible
4) naming
5) displacement
6) productivity/generativity
Grammar
Complete set of rules that will generate acceptable utterances
Phonology
Language’s sounds and rules for combining sounds
Phonemes
Smallest segment of sound in given language
Syntax
How to put words in a sequence so they’re meaningful
Lexical
Words and their meanings
Morphemes
Smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning
Polysemous words
Words with many meanings
How are polysemous words’ meanings deduced?
Context; all meanings activated at a low level, then irrelevant meanings are deactivated based on context
Levels of Language
1) phonology
2) syntax
3) lexical
4) conceptual
5) belief
Mental structures
Mental representation of situation conveyed by language
Situation models
Combination of information in text with semantic and episodic knowledge
Broca’s aphasia
Difficulty producing speech and writing
Wernicke’s aphasia
Difficulty understanding language
