PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Emergentism, Metalinguistic Awareness, Language Acquisition Device
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Empirical study on cognition 1956 conference: simon & newell problem solving, chomksy new model of language, miller - memory. Cognition (or thought") refers to the mental processes we use to acquire knowledge. Involves how information is processed and manipulated when we are thinking in anyway (e. g. remembering, learning, making decisions, etc. ) Language refers to a form of communication based on a system of symbols that can be combined in a variety of ways to convey different meanings. Smallest speech/sound units in a language that our ears can identify, or that allow us to distinguish the meaning of a spoken word. For example: the word pin" has three phonemes: /p/ + /i/ + /n/ The english language has between 40 and 45 phonemes. The letters in the alphabet can represent more than one phoneme when they have different pronunciations. For example, a" in: rat, far, rail, rake, fall. The smallest unit of meaning in a language.
