PSYC 2650 Study Guide - Linguistic Determinism, Tabula Rasa, Categorical Logic
9 Dec 2011
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You have a language organ in your brain, all you need is people talking to you and that language organ is going to develop- needs minimal input. When you"re thinking, what thinking is, is just internal language. Studies the structure of natural language rather than its everyday use. Formal discipline, examines different languages to see what they all have in common. Economists very theoretical, psychologists don"t make assumptions in this case (we ask what do people do) Focusing on what people do do instead of what they should do. Productivity an infinite number of utterances are possible in any language. Regularity these utterances are systematic in many ways. Everyday use of language does not always correspond to linguistic theory. Competence a person"s abstract knowledge of a language. Performance the actual application of that knowledge in speaking or listening. No making linguistic judgments has little to do with everyday language use. You use language perfectly, doesn"t rely on competence.
