CD-0001 Lecture Notes - Nativism (Politics), A Priori And A Posteriori, Cogito Ergo Sum
31 Jan 2014
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Kuntu to muntu, child without language can speak. 2 times brain is at full capacity: playing a piano concerto, reading a difficult poem, prosody, speech melody, keeps listeners engaged, universal historical question about language, who was the first to speak?, psammeticus. Isolated a baby and waited to see what his first word was. Also done by: james iv of scotland: first words were hebrew. Morphology: smallest unit of meaning learned over time (s= plural; ed= past: syntax: grammatical structures of sentences, pragmatics: rules of social intercourse, how we study language, classic linguistics. History of language: neurolinguistics and neuroscience, sociolinguistics, child development. Developmental differences: deafness, disorders of language development. Infancy: planum temporale developed in fetus, 8 cry/coo sounds, prosody, categorical perception. Air vs no air: lateralization of speech sounds. Babbling on the hands: vocal tract maturation, vocables, receptive vs expressive differences, motherese. 12-18 months: first words, holophrases, overextension ( nunu , underextension, overextension, cognition. 18 months-2 years: naming epiphany, word explosion.
