concepts
categories of lingustic information, images, ideas, or memories
prototype
the best example or representation of a concept
natural concepts
created naturally through either
artificial concepts
defined by a specific set of characteristics
schema
a mental construct consisting of a collection of related concepts
role schema
makes assumptions about how individuals in certain roles will behave
event schema
a set of routine or automatic behaviours
language
a communicaiton system that involves using words adn systematic rules to organize those words to trasnmit information from one individual to another
lexicon
words of a given languages
grammar
the set of rules that are used to convey meaning through the use of the lexicon
phoneme
a basic sound unit
morphemes
the smallest units of language that convey some type of meaning
semantics
the meaning we derive from morphemes and words
syntax
the way words are organized into sentences
