PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Universal Grammar, Language Production, Taa Language
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Define language, how we learn language and the brain areas involved in. Describe how thought and language are related. Describe research on thinking, problem solving, decision making and metacognition. A set of symbols used for communication. Facilitates thinking, problem solving, and decision making. Speech - the expression of language through sound. I. e. we speak spanish, but do not speak asl. ** language and speech are not the same thing. I. e. lions roar but do not make any other sounds to communicate. Do not have different phenomes like humans do. Human languages are generative - we make new sentences. You can say the same thing a million different ways: i hate nursing. There are endless possibilities & we come up with our own sentences when communicating with one another. Depends who you speak to - some say animals have language, some disagree. The structured and conventional expression of thoughts thoughts -> words = language.
