Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Fricative Consonant, Affricate Consonant, Epiglottis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Marc Joanisse

Document Summary

Cognitive science the study of the mind: we have not just a brain, but also mental states that are superimposed on that brain, we reason our way through the world in various ways. Brings different areas of research into a unified effort to understand how the brain works. Attempt to look at how the mind works: linguistics, philosophy, computer science. Try to come up with computational formulations for language: engineering. The nature of language: what is language and how does it relate to other forms of communication. What do we know when we know language: mental grammars your mind s representation of language, phonemes, morphemes, etc. Descriptions of the different units of representations of language. Language processing: understanding spoken words, understanding written words. How are they different: sentence comprehension, language production. Language and the brain: how the brain creates language. Exceptional cases: language disorders, reading disorders, bilingualism, sign language.