PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Language Disorder, Heritability, White Noise
15 Oct 2016
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Greater heritability estimates for impaired and for grammar. If someone in family has language disorder you have greater chance of inheriting that. Some animals have this too but they don"t have language. Is there something special that gives us language. Big 3: reference (this thing this word that i say phone, stands for all phones in the world- not just this one phone), syntax (structure) (can"t be random), intentionality (cannot be a reflex) Bees produce unique messages, but lack productivity. Not cultural though, they can sing but they must hear their song of their species first. If we can teach them a linguistic system they must have a language in their brain. Coadaptation- have potentially rudimentary language system that isn"t theirs, it"s our language system. Dogs are domestic animals and recently they are with ours. If a dog is to survive- that dog better read human. German dog (had reference, owner talking pet-directed speech.
