ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lexical Item, Language Testing, Lev Vygotsky
27 Oct 2020
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Learning goals: how do language and cognition influence each other, theories of language, components of language and their function, cultural differences in interpretation / understanding. Keywords: comprehension, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, reading, lexical access, discourse processing, whorf, linguistic relativity, bilingualism. Language comprehension and production speech segmentation = process of trying to separate the continuous sound stream into distinct words phonetic refinement theory = start with an analysis of auditory sensations and shift to higher-level processing. Reading spoken language comprehension vs. written language comprehension. Writing shows discrete boundaries between words confined to the words on a page. Children require elaborate teaching to master written language. Adults who can read tend to learn new words more quickly when they appear in a written form lexical processes = used to identify letters and words. Listeners rely more on their working memory variability, errors, sloppy pronunciation, interfering stimuli.
