PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Morpheme, Language Development, Noam Chomsky
22 Jun 2016
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Language is regular and is governed by rules and grammar. A reorganized sentence can still retain it"s meaning. The sounds of words do not reference to the object they are talking about. There are limitless ways to combine words in order to describe objects, situations and places. This is seen by analyzing infants who experiment with words in order to convey a message. The whorf-sapir hypothesis: our thoughts are highly influenced by the native language we speak in. When thinking about a topic, we often converse with ourselves in our native language. Language may influence how we perceive and experience the world. This can be seen through analyzing the piraha tribe o piraha language only contains numbers 1, 2 and many: the piraha tribe has trouble recalling groups of objects that were greater than two. Groups greater than two resulted in a decrease of performance. The tribe members were limited by their language.
