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PSC100 CH 8
Ch8 Language and Communication
Term | Definition |
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4 criteria for language | Communication, Meaningful, Structured, Creative |
lexicon | "library" of words we use and their links to real-world representations |
Zipf's Law | words that are used often tend to be of shorter length |
word frequency effect | people are faster to respond to high-frequency words than to low-frequency words |
productivity | we have the ability to produce and understand completely novel sentence |
recursion | nesting or self-embedding (sentence within a sentence) |
Markov models | explained structure as emerging from the probabilistic dependencies of words |
finite state grammars | menu for transitioning from one list of words to another; no another rules |
grammar | rules that constrain how words can be put together |
syntax | rules that determine word order and inflection within a particular language |