COGS 101C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cognitive Science Society, Noam Chomsky, Transformational Grammar
21 Apr 2017
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Linguistics is for the most part concerned with the language itself. Others may study the anatomy involved in language production. Literary scholars may be interested in the aesthetics. Cognitive scientists focus on the mechanisms that produce language as a behavior. Unlikely that one approach accounts for everything, must see things from multiple perspectives. Findings from different perspectives should hopefully converge and contribute to our understanding of language. Language is important, no matter what you"re studying, language plays an important role: we can"t understand higher level processes without understanding language. On the other hand, language is a nuisance and can"t be trusted language is a source of error. Language is important, but not more special than other behaviors. Language is important but it"s really hard, let"s skip it for now and come back for later. Meringer carefully documented patterns in speech errors 1895. Freud also interested in slips of the tongue in terms of psychodynamic theory 1901.
