LIN 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Computational Linguistics, Color Basic, Steven Pinker

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The evolution of language has expanded into a productive, stimulating, and diverse are of research since the 1990"s. The enterprise has also expanded beyond the origins of language to include language birth and death, as well as language speciation. Advances in technologies for the study of brain and language (neurologists, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics) Thinking aloud = speech, but thinking in our head = covert speech. Thoughts are formed in advance of the words that we utter thought and language. Ideas are formed in terms of the words themselves language and thought. Sapir-whorf hypothesis (1940-1958: thought some speakers of certain languages were more highly cognitively advanced/ has more cognitive categories for having multiples of words. Ideal that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge of thought. Whorf states that language does not only voice ideas, but also shapes them. Speakers of different languages: perceive the world differently, results in different cognitive systems.

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