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| Lecture 6
- How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands |
One of the most uniquely human abilities is the capacity for creating and understanding language. This lecture introduces students to the major topics within the study of language: phonology, morphology, syntax and recursion. This lecture also describes theories of language acquisition, arguments for the specialization of language, and the commonalities observed in different languages across cultures.
Gray, Peter. Psychology (5th edition), chapter 11
Pinker, Steven. "The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language." In The Norton Psychology Reader. Edited by Gary Marcus. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. pp. 97-107
Baker, Mark C. "The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar." In The Norton Psychology Reader. Edited by Gary Marcus. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. pp. 108-114
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