PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frontal Lobe, Katakana, Speech Production
1 Sep 2016
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Australians went to papua new guinea and saw the png highlanders. First 5 years: curiosity to learn languages, as long as we"re near people. Hear da , lips say ba , speaker sounds ga . The dog chased the cat vs the cat was chased by the dog . Syntax is different across languages, semantics is constant across languages. 70% of the world is unable to read fluently. 20% of the world is unable to read a simple message. 40 million americans read below the 8th grade level. 16% of english words don"t have a rule and must be memorized. Writing systems are a relatively recent invention (less than 5000 years ago) We used to read from right to left. Phonetic based writing systems: alphabet based like english. Symbolic based writing systems: symbol based like katakana. Logographic based writing systems: logo based like chinese and japanese. Not so much about the specific info, more about getting the gist of things.
