LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Computational Model, Preferred Frame, Mental Rotation
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> some parts of language will be identical. > some variable parts whose structures are guided by ug. > some arbitrary parts in english cat is cat, in spanish cat is gato, etc. The world is kind of unstructured and what structures it is language whorf. Sapir- whorf hypothesis: people"s thoughts are determined by the categories (=systems of classi cation) made available by their language. Task: determine whether two shapes are: the same (tilted at different languages, reverse-images of the same letter. Hypothesis 1: the task is performed by analyzing the shapes in a verbal-like language hypothesis 2: the mind performs a mental rotation of the geometric shapes. Or reaction times increase as the angle at which the letter is tilted increases (argument for hypothesis 2) conclusion that hypothesis 2 is correct. The computational model of the mind: turing machine.
