PSYC 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Binoculars, Headache, Syntactic Ambiguity
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System of communication using sounds or symbols that enables us to express feelings, thoughts, ideas, and experiences. Deaf children invent sign language: nicaraguan sign language (nsl, deaf children got together and were able to communicate. All cultures have a language: over 5,000 different languages. Language development is similar across cultures: children babble around 7 months. Languages are unique but the same : different words, sounds, and rules, all have nouns, verbs, negatives, questions, past/present tense. Hierarchical system: components that can be combined to form larger units. Governed by rules: specific ways components can be arranged. But rules allow us to be creative: truck, powder, cup, pinecone, make a sentence with these words. B. f. skinner (1957): verbal behavior: language learned through reinforcement, kid points to cookie, mom says cookie, kid says cookie, boom kid learned the word cookie , [empiricist] Psycholinguistics: discover psychological process by which humans acquire and process language: comprehension, speech production, representation, acquisition.
