Psychology 2043A/B Lecture 6: Lecture 6- November 4th.docx
10 Dec 2013
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1872: school of vocal physiology (bell: students who were deaf or who had stutters or articulation problems, 1925: american speech and hearing association (asha) ***** exam. Paul broca (1861) and carl werknicke (1876) had significantly different brains. Everyone agrees about what children actually do. Behaviorist"s: language is a subset of other learned behaviours. Social learning view: behaviourists + imitation. Current pragmatics: social aspects of language, exposure to language, bilingual/bicultural language acquisition, more focused on not so much drilling language into them but creating an environment where language can be learned easily and comfortably. Approach is to let animals pick up language symbols in normal conversation. Bonobos understanding of new sentences is about the level of a 2. 5 year old child. So do dolphins, monkeys, apes and humans. Exchange of thoughts, information, and ideas: sender, message, receiver. A system of symbols organized into conventional patterns to communicate meaning: receptive language, expressive language.
