Chapter 8: Language

3. A system of rules for describing a particular language; consists of phonology, morphology, and syntax.
4. Refers to the fact that an infinite number of utterances are theoretically possible in any human language.
5. The study of meaning, e.g., the meanings of words and whole sentences.
7. structure The structure of sentences as analyzed into their constituent phrases.
9. the smallest unit of speech.
10. phrase Consists of a noun or pronoun plus modifiers.
12. lexicon The “dictionary in the mind” which contains information about the meanings and syntactic categories of all the words a person knows.
14. Connected speech or text.
15. The process by which words in a sentence are transformed into a mental representation of their combined meaning.
17. Rules describing how words may be combined to make acceptable utterances in a given language.

1. Smallest part of a word that carries independent meaning.
2. model Representation of the events or relations described in a text/discourse; may be non- propositional (e.g., mental imagery)
6. Something that stands for or represents something else, without physically resembling it, i.e., the relation is arbitrary.
8. Refers to the fact that languages are structured and rule-governed.
11. phrase Consists of a verb plus modifiers.
13. A coherent unit of syntax within a sentence.
16. path sentence a sentence in which we make the wrong interpretation initially and must go back and correct ourselves.