LING 1P92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Amay, Visual Processing, Vise
12 Jan 2016
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Does linguistic behaviour governed by rules/constrains, or by statistical. U-shaped acquisition of past tense ((the way children learn past tense) Speed of language acquisition (close to adult by 4 years) Linguistic ability vs. other cognitive abilities of toddlers. Any language can be acquired, provided the right input. Critical age hypothesis (ex. that there is a time after which language can"t be. Reading aloud would involve at least 2 modules. Or different parts of an interconnected network (ex. Visual processing and word recognition) interact to permit reading and articulation. Harley describes psycholinguists are methologically promiscuous/pluralistic (the more evidence from different source, the better) Hypothesis test hypothesis model test etc . Module 1- decode visual input at the beginning of task. Module 2- perform articulatory operations at the end of the task. Others: language is a collection of other cognitive faculties. Age, gender, location of brain damage, sentence ambiguity) Analysis of a body of elicited of spontaneous speech or other data)
