Chapter 3
Cards (16)
- Human language occurs as a vocal type of communicaton, which is perceived by hearing.
- Human language signals when sent can be perceived in limited directions through sent in all directions
- Language is produced openly and can be heard by multiple individuals
- Speech wave forms fade rapidly which is why the human language signal does not persist over time
- Utterances are brief and transient, not permanent
- Speaker can receive and send the same signal
- Speakers can both produce and comprehend messages
- Hearing ourselves while we speak
- Humans have different organs, and each organ has its own specific function in speech
- For every signal there is a corresponding
- There is no necessary connectio to the form and the thing assigned to
- The basic speech units can be categorized. There is no gradual continuous shading from one sound to another
- Humans can talk about things that are not physically present or that do not even exist. Speakers can talk about the past, future, and can express hopes and dreams
- Refers to idea that language users can create and understand novel utterances. Humans are able to produce an unlimited amount of utterances.
- While humans are born with innate language capabilities, language is learned after birth in a social setting ; Crucial in the human acquisition process
- Meaningful messages are made up of distinct smaller meaningful units (words and morphemes) which themselves are made up of distinct smaller, meaningless units (phonemes)