CSCD 2219 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cerebral Cortex, Long-Term Memory, Inferior Frontal Gyrus
6 Apr 2017
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Implicit: innate function, where we are mostly unaware of the function: explicit: functioning with awareness of how to navigate. Language as a biological function: articulatory (speech mechanisms, auditory (hearing mechanisms, neurological. Theory of mind: having the ability to perceive oneself as different from others, recognizing individuality. Poverty of stimulus: children do not acquire language solely based on input received, therefore input is inadequate, theorized that children are born with innate knowledge which aids in the acquisition process, essentially the argument of nature vs. nurture. Definitions: lexicon: information stored in your brain which enables a speaker to link sound segments with meaning, phonetics: phonemic inventories (singular sounds, phonology: stringing sounds together, morphology: word formation, syntax: grammatical structures, semantics: usage in context pragmatics. Encoding ideas using the articulatory system, abstract ideas are extracted from the lexicon, put into grammatical structure, then articulated as a phonological representation.
