Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Parsing, Speech Segmentation, Cognitive Revolution

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Language a system of communication using sounds or symbols that enables us to express our feelings, thoughts, ideas &experiences. Human language can be distinguished from animal communication by its creativity, hierarchical structure, governing rules, &universality. Modern research in the psychology of language blossomed in the 50s &60s w/the advent of: one of the central events in the cognitive revolution was chomsky"s critique of. Psycholinguistics the field concerned w/the psychological study of language. 4 major concerns of psycholinguistics: comprehension how do people understand spoken &written language. How people process language sounds, understand words/sentences/stories expressed in writing/speech/sign language, &have conversations w/1 another: speech production how do people produce language. Physical processes of speech &production, mental processes that occur as a person creates speech: representation how is language represented in the mind &brain. How people group words together &make connections between different parts of a story. How processes are related to the activation of the brain: acquisition how do people learn language.