LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Iroquoian Languages, Pragmatics, Phonetics
14 Sep 2015
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Week 1: language as the most human quality, what distinguishes us for other animals, used everyday, for everything that we do, the stuff" (language?) of thought. Universality of complex language: all human society have complex language, even culturally primitive" tribes living in remote areas, consider the cherokee pronoun system (iroquoian language of the. You, one or more other persons and i. Language acquisition: children acquire language effortlessly, no direct instruction from parents, at most, parents speak in slow, repetitive patterns, children sometimes say things that parents have never uttered (goed) > overgeneralization. Learns systemically: play > played: children know things about language that they could not possibly have been taught. Week 1 language is localized in a couple of main areas in the brain: broca"s area, wernicke"s area, but, sometimes after brain damage, people can regain full language use, localizing language elsewhere in the brain.
