PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Somatosensory System, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Visual Angle
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Test preparation: study, answer what you think you"re answering. Information on lecture notes doesn"t mean it"s the answer; they"re just supplements to the answers, so you may need to explain more in order to show that you understand. Last lecture (continued: some people say umms and ahhs as a side signal that it"s intentional, but this theory has been cast out. How do listeners react to disfluencies: signal or noise , recall issue with gestures: perhaps not intentionally communicative, but can nonetheless signal something to listener, sensitivity to disfluencies: (lab experiments) Disfluency and utterance boundaries: sandra bumped into the busboy and the waiter told her to be careful, typically: slow to understand (i have to reprocess the sentence when final words are head) Starting point: worldwide popular assumption that language has some kind of relationship with the way we think, today"s goal: evaluate scientific evidence for or against this idea. Challenges in framing the question: 1.
