PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bird Vocalization, Turing Test, Reverse Engineering
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Learn few words/symbols even after many years. Question 2 circumstances in learning language educational system s that restricted sigh langyage and instead did oral language exposed later in life. Resembles exposure to a late oral language. Question 3 stress to signal contrast signal what words grammatical context pauses and intonation communicative intent. 4 year olds are beginning to put together langague and prosody: design featurezs phototactics/symballic positionsing. Greater posentional to iconicy even though it does not act on it. Language and its relationship to other kinds of behaviour. Co-speech gesture various accessories that add to the system that gives more sophistication. Need to know who to use language - know rules. Enterprise of reverse engineering have the product (brain), goal is to figure out how it works. We have the end product we want to know how it works. Sometimes in the course of build something recognise all of its ingredients see what the human mind actually possesses.
