PSY315H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Linguistic Relativity, Railways Act 1921, Grammatical Gender
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Psy315 lecture 9: linguistic influences on language development. Ex. properties of phonological system lexical development. Salience of nouns vs. verbs balance of nouns/verbs in child vocabulary: language socialization. The way in which children learn how to appropriately use language within their culture. Ex. amount of talk north american children vs. japanese children. Indirectness: how directly do you tell someone to do something, how indirect you have to be to sound polite. Language can"t be the actual basis of thought: cognition in prelinguistic infants, animal cognition: lots of smart things animals can do but they don"t have language. They understand kinship relations: not having a word for something doesn"t mean you can"t conceptualize it. Across cultures, there are differences in thinking that co-occur with differences in the structure of languages. It"s putting on the table that different cultures think differently so different cognition with different languages. The differences in thinking referred to above are caused by differences in languages.
