Class4 - The Scientific Method to Psycholinguistics - temporary
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This document provides an overview of psycholinguistics and the scientific method. It discusses: 1) Psycholinguistics aims to understand how language is acquired, processed in the mind, and differs from animal communication, taking a formal, biological, and psychological approach. 2) It views language as an abstract, structured system in the mind, a faculty that is uniquely human. The language system generates structure across different levels of organization. 3) The document then shifts to discussing the origins and goals of science, explaining that science seeks to understand the world through questioning and establishing connections between observations to find rational explanations, or truths, that stand up over time.
Class4 - The Scientific Method to Psycholinguistics - temporary
- 1. The Scientific Method Applied to Psycholinguistics LCD 105 – Class 4 – Professor Nathacia
- 2. Before we begin… Let’s look back last week.
- 3. (i) In what extent this language is different from animal communication systems? • Formal: Creativity; Generative (system designed to be fruitful) • Biological: Genetics (FOXP2); language physiology (visual, hearing, and vocal apparatuses, brain); exaptation; • Psychological: Recursion; complexity; memory. (Human) Language: three aspects
- 4. Summary » To be able to study such a complex object as Language, we need to assume a point of view; » The point of view is made based on what our goals are; » Psycholinguistics aims to understand and explain how language is acquired, how we process language in our minds, and how our language is different from other animals systems of communication; » Therefore, we have an approach to language focused on the formal, the biological and the psychological aspects of language; » Based on those, Language is an abstract structured system in the mind, a faculty of the mind, specifically human; » Language system is a structure generator; » Language structure is articulated and organized in levels; » Each level has its distinctive units and system specifications to organization of the structure;
- 5. Let’s start our new journey!
- 8. What is the origin of science? And the origin of scientific thought? “The start of all sciences is the amusement of things be as they are.” - Aristotle
- 9. Science? Humans have this nger for knowledge. What are we? Why are we here? Wiki?Youtube? Questioning is the best way to get to knowledge. All sorts of questions have been done by all societies: the answers vary through History
- 10. Philosophy seeks an answer to validate as the Truth. Philosophers are those who haven’t lost the ability to be amazed by the things: virgin eyes make us apt to questioning. “I think; therefore I am”: Thinking = to judge, to establish new connections, to seek for solutions (rationalize). Science and philosophy
- 11. What is Truth?
- 13. Truth: is defined by its lastingness through time. (History) Truth or Absolute Truth?