PSYC 354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Steven Pinker, Pragmatics, Behaviorism
5 Mar 2019
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The worldviews we take influence our thinking of language. Language is a quite controversial and debated topic. Others, such as mead: how language creates the mind. Grammar: rules and principles that govern language; often divided into four categories: Follow in labeling: experimenter labels the toy that the child is playing with. Discrepant labeling: labels while the child is looking at something else. In discrepant looking, the older infants learn the new word 74% of the time; others not above chance. But even the younger infants do not make systematic mapping errors (there is some awareness that the adult is labelling something else) This is a bridge between joint attention and language. This view of language is focused on reference. Based on an alternative view of language. Bf skinner explained language with principles of behaviourism. I. e. language is learned through association (associative chain theory or finite state grammar) Each word has a certain probability of appearing after the other words.
