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BEGINNING CONCEPTS
Language as Distinct from Speech
Language
The primary communication system for the human species
It is used to to convey thoughts through speech
Speech
is indeepd the most frequent mode for transmitting linguistic information
include the gestures used in sign language
The graffic represtation used in writing
Writing
are invented by people who already use language
Writing is a cultural artifact
Is always dependent on spoken language
Graphemes
The sybols represent words
Children learn to speak before to write
Are linked to the language´s system
Thoughts
People can think but cannot communicate
we verbaliza our thought through language
Animals can think but cannot communicate thir thoughts
Bilinguals can express one thought in two languages
Childrens who suffer from neurological pathologies that have impaired their language ability
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IS
An indiciplinary fiel of study
How people acquire the language
How people use language to speak and understand
How language is represnted and processed in the brain
The Creativity Of Human Language
Is different from the communication system of other animal
Spearkes of the language can understand novel sentces for an entire lifetime.
A unique features of human languages
is an unconsciuos process
The Universality Of the Human Nature
Human lenguage is concider as a single entity
There are many differents versions spoken and the differents languages communities.
All humans have language of similar organization and funtion
Implications for the acquisition of Language
Children in every culture acquire the grammar and lexicon
An important area of psycholinguistic
They develop the abilitiy to employ that linguistic knowledge
Children acquire this without effort
How Language Pairs Sound and Meaning
Morphological rules
Sytax Rules
Phonological Rules
The speech Signal And Linguistic perception
This signal must contain enough information
Understanding the relationship between the signal and its decoded linguistic representation
The signal is the only physical link between the speaker and the hearer.
Characteristics in the language system
Grammar
Knowledge of such system will give aspeaker the ability to organize ideas into words
Knowledge is called "tacit" or "Implicit
Tacit knowledge is in the brain and it is unconcious
Implicit Knowledge is when you learn telefones numbers
Language
Is a formal system for pairing , signals with meaning
They use language to encode and decode the meaning
Their linguistic system that enable sound and meaning to be pairs
Liguistic Competences and Perfomance
Competences
Technical term, Refer to the knowledge of language
Perfomance
Is the production and comprehesion
The distintion Between Descriptive and Prescriptive grammar
prescriptive Grammar
People use the language in a formal way
Knowing how to adapt to the standard way to speaking and write
Drescriptive Grammar
That is a language system that underlies tordinary use
People talk in informal context
Psycholinguistics
Name: Jose Andres Barrientos
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