GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Lexicon, Linguistic Relativity, Speech Perception
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Keywords: comprehension, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, reading, lexical access, discourse processing, whorf, linguistic relativity, bilingualism. Learning objectives: how do we learn/understand language? (comprehension & production, what are the components of language? (structure) Influence of culture on language and vice versa: what else is influenced by language? (language & cognition) Word comprehension: 2 kinds of processes that contribute to our ability to read words (goldstein chapter 9 p: 5. The whorfian hypothesis of linguistic relativity 9. The relation between language, culture and thought 14. Research on the relation between language and thought in cognitive psychology 14. Research on the relation between language, culture and thought in cultural psychology 14. Other animals also communicate, but they do not have natural language because they fail the above. All human languages are communication systems, but not all communication systems have the properties to be classified as natural languages! Phonology: the study of the ways in which phonemes can be combined in any language.
