PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Kuuk Thaayorre Language, Psychological Nativism, Analog Science Fiction And Fact

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Sumarga Suanda

Document Summary

Pragmatics: study of how language is used and understood in context, understanding how conversations work: taking turns, gestures, changes in tone of voice. Separate from understanding of sounds, words, sentence structure. Ex) "if you could pass the guac, that"d be awesome" Literal meaning: a world in which you are capable of moving the guac would be astounding. Language acquisition: nativist theory of language acquisition: language development is best explained as an innate, biological capacity (chomsky, critical period for language acquisition: receptivity to learning is optimal, and after this period, learning is less optimal. "biological timetable" makes it consistent with nativist theory. Nativist theory don"t explain how language develops, they explain why. Language and thought: around 7000 languages in the world, does the language we speak shape how we think, research from aboriginal community, kuuk thayore.