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Chapter 10 psycholinguistics people use language, how people use language
Beginning concept to speak, and understand one another.

-the creativity of Common place to every person who knows a Page 2

human language language. Language is used to communicate,
to interact socially, to entertain, and to inform.

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from speech, thought, human. Language refers to whole system of
and communication words and symbols. Written, spoken or
expressed with gestures and body language.
Language refer to the ability to communicate
through speech by delivering and receiving
meaningful messages.

-speech refers to the action of producing

speech or the act of speaking. Speech involves
the physical motor ability to talk.

-thought is the many kinds of individual who

can think but cannot communicate with
language.

-communication is the broadest category of

them all. Communication includes spoken
language but also includes non-verbal
language for interacting and communicating
with others.

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of the linguistics people produce sentence, they use language to
system encode the meaning that they wish to convey
into sequence of speech sounds and when
people understand a spoken sentence,
language allow the to reserve the process and
decode a speaker’s speech to recover the
intended meaning.

-tacit knowledge is represented in the brain

and is put to use in the production and
comprehension of sentences, but is not
consciously available to the individual who
processes it.
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- the distinction Descriptive grammar refers to the structure of
between descriptive a language as it is actually used by speakers
and prescriptive and writers.
grammar
Prescriptive grammar is set of rules. It refers
to the structure of the language as certain
people think it should be used.

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-the universality of Refers to all human languages have a

human language grammar and lexicon, which allow the
creation of infinite set of sentences to convey
any possible thought.