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- 1parsing problembrain is tuned to pick up pauses between words
- 2reference problemif 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 - 3social referencingpay attention to what adults react to
- 4novelty matchingcan use old info and then determine what is new and assign it to new words
- 5intentionality/pedagogyintentional action coupled with new words; baby will couple the two; babies are attuned to us attempting to teach them something
- 6whole object assumptioninnate assumption that entire object is being referenced
- 7category assumptionkids look for categories instead of individual; people look for ball and carry over to all types of balls despite different characteristics
- 8phonologyhow we detect and discriminate and also how we produce sound; sounds words are embedded in
- 9detection and discriminationwords are said slightly differently each time; same way we distinguish different fonts; human mind well tuned to different sounds
- 10Noam Chompskyrevolutionized how people talk about psychology and language;
all human language is identical; all have identifiable subjects, verbs, and objects - 11pidgin languagewhen two speakers of different languages with no common language try to have a conversation with a makeshift language
- 12broca's aphasiadamage to frontal lobe; problem with syntax and not meaning
- 13wernicke's aphasiadamage to temporal; problem with meaning but not syntax
- 14colorless green ideas sleep furiouslyrules and words are separable
- 15implicaturethe action of implying a meaning beyond the literal sense of what is explicitly stated
- 16principle of charityagreeing to make some exceptions in order to understand meaning; meaning doesn’t have to line up with words said
- 17linguistic determinismlanguage provides us with conceptual categories; language is our cognitive processes; different speakers have different worldviews
- 18semanticsmeaning, the interface between ideas and words
- 19syntaxrules that govern how sentences are formed; responsible for our ability to take finite words and make infinite sentences
- 20pragmaticsways 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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