SPEAKING AND LISTENING-Speaking relies on decision making.oThe Goal of Speaking: the audience understands How do we facilitate this understanding?-FluencyoRepetition-Lexical-Lexical Entrainment Effect-Conscious awareness-Syntactic-Structural Priming-Unconscious awareness-Comprehension is aided by fluent speech (disruptions hurt comprehension)oDouble negativesoPassive voiceoNested structuresoAmbiguity -Reading becomes automatic Nonhuman communication and Bilingualism-Animal species differ in complexity and type of communicationoScent, visual, vocal-Geared towards mating and aggression-Attempts have been made to teach nonhumans our language; mixed results-Humans are unique in complex and sophisticated languageoSyntaxoTakes animals thousands of trials to
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