PSYCH 2H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 36: Aphasia, Paul Grice, Frontal Lobe
3 Mar 2020
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Has to do with pitch and rhythm cues in speech. The rise and fall of speech pitch and the pattern of pauses. Can reveal the mood of the speaker. Can direct listener"s attention by specifying the focus / theme of a sentence. Can also help make a sentence not as confusing: this is why printed versions of garden path sentences are more likely to be confusing. Some aspects depend on the language being spoken and language dialect. Other cues such as speaker"s emotions and attitudes seem to be shared across languages. Your use of language also depends on your assumptions about how people communicate with each other. Pragmatics = your knowledge of how language is ordinarily used. Other species also have sophisticated communication systems: naturally occurring systems, but these systems are extremely limited (small vocab"s and little rules of syntax) Wolf" children to turn the start on language learning" into actual language capacity, we need a communicative partner.
