Chapter 9

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Chapter 9 Part II Language

• Language Acquisition
• Language and Cognition

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I. Parts of Speech

• A. How did you read the story? Explain in
• detail what you focused on first, second, etc.
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.

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I. Parts of Speech (cont.)

• B. Which parts of the story exemplify these
• language terms?
• 1. Phonemes
• 2. Morphemes
• 3. Grammar
• 4. Syntax
• 5. Semantics
• 6. Overall Meaning

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II. Development of Language

• A. Timeline (babble/speech)
• 1. Four Months
• 2. Ten Months
• 3. One Year
• a. One-word
• 4. Two Years
• a. Two-word/Telegraphic
• 5. Beyond Two Years
• a. Three Word???

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II. Development of Language (cont.)

• B. Theories of Development (Nature/Nurture)
• 1. Skinner Operant Conditioning
• a. Which perspective?
• b. Associations (sights/sounds)
• c. Reinforcement/Punishment
• d. Grammar?
• e. Nature/Nurture?

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II. Development of Language (cont.)

• 2. Chomsky - (language acquisition device)
• a. Critical Period (imprinting)
• b. Early Babbling

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II. Development of Language (cont.)

• b. Learning foreign
• language?
• c. Grammar
• d. Overextending Verbs
• Dieded
• Amnt I?
• Thinked

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II. Development of Language (cont.)

• 3. Cognitive Neuroscience
• a. Neural Networks
• b. LTP
• c. Critical Period
• d. Genes Wiring Interact
• Reinforcement Language (nature
  AND nurture)

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Language and Cognition

• A. What do we think with? (think)
• 1. Imagery
• 2. Concepts
• 3. Hierarchies
• 4. Prototypes
• B. Does language determine thought?
• 1. Cognitive Therapy (Self-Talk)
• Thinking Errors, awfulization
• 2. Bilingual Thinking
• 3. David Sedaris http//www.youtube.com/watch?vz
  RW8yvf_u-Q If you speak another language, do
  you think differently when you shift back and
  forth?

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III. Language and Cognition

• 3. Whorfs Linguistic Relativity
• Hypothesis
• a. Linguistic Determinism
• VERY specific probably not so
• http//blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/5-examples-of-ho
  w-the-languages-we-speak-can-affect-the-way-we-thi
  nk/
• b. Language transmits culture,
• values, concepts of reality.
• c. Determine too strong.. Influence!
• Priming, Cues, Schema, Bias
• 4. Expand Language, Expand Thought
• Accommodate your schema!
• Defy your mental set.