PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Pacifier, Reading Education In The United States, Universal Grammar
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Languages flexible systems that use symbols to express many meaning. One conclusion that has emerged from the studies of primates is that true verbal ability is a social behaviour. Language plays a crucial role in our day-to-day communication, by we also use language as a tool in our remembering and thinking. It also enables us to think about very complex and abstract issues by encoding them as words and then manipulating the words according to logical rules. Linguists have studied the rules of language and have described precisely what we do when we speak or write. In contrast, researchers in psycholinguistics, a branch of psychology devoted to the study of verbal behaviour, are more concerned with human cognition than with the particular rules that describe language. Psycholinguists are interested in how children acquire language and study how adults use language and how verbal abilities interact with other cognitive abilities.
