PSYC 2650 Lecture 6: PSYCH 2650 - Language
4 Feb 2016
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Some of these topics interest people from other elds as well such as economics and linguistics. * view the questions asked by cognitive scientists. Studies the structure of natural language rather than its every day use (such as how it differs among others) Everyday use of language does not always correspond to linguistic theory. Empiricism/nurture: our language abilities are learned (they are not innate) Mental (cross out): our language abilities are nothing but stimulus response associations. Evidence for innate constraints on language (nature) - chomsky. The brain is ready to go and is built for language and needs little help for development (few cases of where kids were neglected from language) -jeannie example. Thought = language (biproduct of language - speaking to yourself) activating that speech system to that degree to which the muscles are working - such as actual speaking.
