LING444 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Development
4 Nov 2018
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Language: (a) one of the 6,000 individual languages of the world; (b) more generally, all human languages and their mental representation. Psycholinguistics: combination of linguistics and psychology; much of the research on language development would fall into this category. Cognitive development: incremental growth of anything mental or having to do with the mind. Acquisition: development not based on explicit teaching (language acquisition) Most important parts of speech for our purposes: nouns (n) and verbs (v) The noun test: a word is a noun if it can take the article the" (ex: the teacher) The verb test: a word is a verb if it can occur in the construction i am . ing (ex: i am teaching) Other parts of speech that we may use. Adjective (a) - old, new, yellow, etc. Each level of language is composed of smaller parts. Levels built on top of each other.
