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Lecture notes Language and Cognition (PS210)

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anguageof themind

dor1975 ourconceptual representation howwereasonaboutconceptsandcategorisations oftheworldmayha

language lineformat


our thinking is a computation of suchrepresentations

what counts as languagelinedependsonwhatyouknowaboutlanguages




nguagemayimpactthinking


pirwhort Hypothesis whorf19501

Thelanguagethatyouspeakshapesthewayyouthinkabouttheworld

languageinteractswithwithotheraspects of cognition




dularity ofthemindFodor1983

language is a module thatonlyminimallyinteractswithotherpartsof themind


Doesn't matterwhatlanguagewe speak as it doesn't fundamentallyaffectthewaywethink ourcognition




nguage Acquisition

Ituralconstraints language is sharedbythewaywe interactwithotherhumans

ological constraints language is dependenton our genes linkto110 primatesβ physiologicalfeatures

what is takentobe a biologicalconstraintdependson understanding of language universals

nguage universals what an languageshave in common inorderto derive correct universals it is important

at we understand languagediversity

, nguage diversity bias

tistoricallymostcognitive scientistshave hadonlytheknowledgeof European languages andpotentially majorno

ropean languages Japanese


thismaybebiased our theoretical ideasaboutthemind



anguage diversity

7,000languagesspoken in theworld mostspokenbysmallcommunities

80 oflanguages spoken in a communitysmallerthan100,000speakers

essthan 10 haveproperdescription ofthelexiconandgrammar

nglish is oneof themostcommonlyspokenlanguages in theworldalongsideChineseand Spanish

3,045languagesareendangered

a language becomes endangered whenit'susersbegin to teachandspeak amoredominantlanguagetothechildrenin

e community




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doesthismeanthatpeoplewhospeakdifferent languages actuallypercieveorthinkoftheworlddifferently




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ssian languagehasseparatewordsfordarkblue cowboyandlightblue siniywhereasthe Englishlanguage isjust blue

estion are russian speakersbetterat distinguishingtwoshadesofbluefromtwolinguisticcategoriesthan2 shadesofbl

thin a category

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