COGS 101C Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jean Piaget, Animal Communication, Universal Grammar
21 Apr 2017
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Cogs 101c lecture #3 : foundations of language research: key questions and debates. Language is not restricted to the left hemisphere. Regions outside of wernicke"s and broca"s area seem important for language processing. Complete lesions of broca"s or wernicke"s areas rarely lead to the particular permanent aphasias you would predict. Updated models must account for the variability and flexibility of how language is represented in the brain. Cognitive modularity: whether language processing is informationally encapsulated, do we process linguistic information completely separately from other cognitive processing, chomsky: language is a special separate faculty, can"t be reduced to general cognitive processing skills. Less a question about if we have innate qualities, but how much is innate and what is specifically related to language. The speech that children do hear is called degenerate (contains errors and hesitations) Communication is not the same as language, and language makes humans unique. Hockett proposed a variety of general properties or design features of human language.
