COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Animal Cognition, Animal Language, Oneword
15 Oct 2014
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Cogs100: introduction to cognitive science - lecture 7: linguistics perspective. A variety of theoretical approaches and methodologies. Topics include: grammatical rules, animal language, development, computer speech recognition. Grammatical rules: phonology rules governing sounds sounds, morphology rules governing word structures (apple"s, syntax rules for arranging words in sentences, semantics rules for understanding meanings. Many experiments on animal cognition about languages specifics with chimps. Chimps have shown ability to learn sign language and occasionally use syntax to produce sentences. They could choose symbols to denote relationships such as same as or different . Demonstrated rudimentary understanding of grammar and could tell the difference between a gave c to b and b gave c to a . Primates demonstrate some arbitrariness (symbol can be anything but stand for the same referent) and displacement (referring to something that has moved in time or space) Phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in the sound system of language (alphabetical.
