PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Jabberwocky, Wabe
28 Apr 2020
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously good syntax but the sentence is were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe. Sounds grammatical but: semantics, with poor syntax all your base are belong to us , eg. Sentences composed of words, different words can share meaning. Slides 9 & 10 - language: the sound that you hear depends on whether you are looking at the guys mouth or closing your eyes. Infants will dis-habituate to the /ba/ which has a very little difference is voice onset time: head-turn procedure. Associative learning: linking words to objects seen as word uttered in. There is an issue though because of fast mapping and you"ll have to onamed objects not always present eg lets go to the supermarket what did you dream : more promising solution. To learn meanings, infants use various assumptions, biases, social cues, pragmatic cues. Children might have some abilities that helps them figure out what words mean.
