PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: On Language, Temporal Lobe, Neurolinguistics
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One of the first schemas that we learn; cannot unlearn language. Psychologist linguist noam chomsky we have a language acquisition device built into our brains (we acquire language during the critical period between birth and age. When you are exposed to language, you absorb it. When you experience amnesia, you don"t forget language (retrograde amnesia: mutism/selective mutism. If you learn a second language after 12 terrible accent. Phonological (sound) [vibrations in the air: you learn sounds in utero, basic consonants (hard sounds) and vowels (soft sounds) >> cooing. Semantic (meaning: da-da/ma-ma >> first words that have meaning, putting consonants and vowels together, putting sounds together into words. Syntactic (grammar: late infancy/toddlerhood, putting words (semantic) together in a syntax, most basic syntax, ie: want cookie . Pragmatic (context/communication: comes after toddlerhood adolescence, ie using sarcasm (if you don"t understand the pragmatism- context in language. Diss (not) , un, ness (plenty), ful (plenty)
