PLIC55H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Habituation, Autism Spectrum, Mutual Exclusivity
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Human natural langs show duality of patterning (the concept that lang works at 2 general levels, with units of sound combining into meaning units (usually words), and these meaningful units combine into a larger pattern of meaningful syntactic units). An infant must start to distinguish voicing to attribute meaning differences between /b g/ and /d g: 17mos babies were able to show they could distinguish the words with meanings from part-words appearing in a sound sample. Language at large: 5. 1: how different languages cut up the concept pie: natural classes exist at the world level; ex. it"s alien to group roses and rabbits exclusively as its own class. Some languages have non-translatable words: litost: czech feeling as infinite as an accordion, synthesis of grief, remorse, sympathy, and an indefinable longing , mokita: new guinea truth everybody knows but nobody speaks . Pavlov"s classical conditioning experiment with dogs, bells, and salivation: 15-20mos left in room to play with novel object.
