语言学6cognition.ppt

Chapter SixLanguage and Cognition
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1. What is Cognition?
Mental processes, information processing
Mental process or faculty of knowing, including awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.
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The formal approach: structural patterns, including the study of morphological, syntactic, and lexical structure.
The psychological approach: language from the view of general systems ranging from perception, memory, attention, and reasoning.
The conceptual approach: how language structures (processes & patterns) conceptual content.
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2. Psycholinguistics
Psychological aspects of language.
Psychological states and mental activity with the use of language.
Language acquisition, language production & comprehension.
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Structural linguistics
Cognitive psychology
Anthropology
Neurosciences
Related fields
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Language acquisition (L1 / L2)
Language comprehension
Language production
Language disorders
Language and Thought
Neurocognition
Six subjects of research
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Language Acquisition
Holophrastic stage
Language’s sound patterns
Phonetic distinctions in parents’ language.
One-word stage: objects, actions, motions, routines.
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Two-word stage: around 18m
Child utterance
Mature speaker
Purpose
Want cookie
I want a cookie
Request
More milk
I want some more milk
Request
Joe see
I (Joe) see you
Informing
My cup
This is my cup
Warning
Mommy chair
This chair belongs to M
Warning
Big boy
I am a big boy
Bragging
Red car
That car is red
Naming
That car
That is a car
Naming
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Child utterance
Mature speaker
Purpose
No sleep
I don’t want to go to sleep
Refusal
Not tired
I am not tired
Refusal
Where doll?
Where is the doll?
Question
Truck table
The truck is on the table
Informing
Daddy run
Daddy is running
Informing
Joe push
I (Joe) pushed (the cat)
Informing
Push cat
I pushed the car
Informing
Give candy
Give me the candy
Request
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Three-word-utterance stage
Give doggie paper.
Put