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Flashcards by Sneha Mittal, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sneha Mittal
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| parsing problem | brain is tuned to pick up pauses between words |
| reference problem | if a word is coupled with something, how do they know exactly what we are referring to - social referencing -novelty matching - intentionality/pedagogy -whole object assumption -category assumption |
| social referencing | pay attention to what adults react to |
| novelty matching | can use old info and then determine what is new and assign it to new words |
| intentionality/pedagogy | intentional action coupled with new words; baby will couple the two; babies are attuned to us attempting to teach them something |
| whole object assumption | innate assumption that entire object is being referenced |
| category assumption | kids look for categories instead of individual; people look for ball and carry over to all types of balls despite different characteristics |
| phonology | how we detect and discriminate and also how we produce sound; sounds words are embedded in |
| detection and discrimination | words are said slightly differently each time; same way we distinguish different fonts; human mind well tuned to different sounds |
| Noam Chompsky | revolutionized how people talk about psychology and language; all human language is identical; all have identifiable subjects, verbs, and objects |
| pidgin language | when two speakers of different languages with no common language try to have a conversation with a makeshift language |
| broca's aphasia | damage to frontal lobe; problem with syntax and not meaning |
| wernicke's aphasia | damage to temporal; problem with meaning but not syntax |
| colorless green ideas sleep furiously | rules and words are separable |
| implicature | the action of implying a meaning beyond the literal sense of what is explicitly stated |
| principle of charity | agreeing to make some exceptions in order to understand meaning; meaning doesn’t have to line up with words said |
| linguistic determinism | language provides us with conceptual categories; language is our cognitive processes; different speakers have different worldviews |
| semantics | meaning, the interface between ideas and words |
| syntax | rules that govern how sentences are formed; responsible for our ability to take finite words and make infinite sentences |
| pragmatics | ways in which we use language in real-life contexts and the assumptions we make about the speakers' intentions that help us interpret what they mean |
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