【英语学习】Language and Cognition教学教案.pptVIP

Lecture 6Language and Cognition;1. psycholinguistics;Psycholinguistics belongs to Macrolinguistics;1.1 Main features of Psycholinguistics;A Process-orientated Science ;A Cognitive Science Linguistic performance : 5 aspects Linguistic: Phonological Grammatical Lexical Cognitive: Conceptual knowledge Systems of beliefs e.g. Mary and John saw the mountains while they were flying the California So : communication is an inferential as well as decoding model;1.2 Why linguistics and psychology can work together? Psychology Linguistics ----------- ----------- (1) Be puzzled by some issues Memory, Language structure, learning, language acquisition, perception, history (2) model Processing Grammar (performance): (competence): (Often learning (Often assumed is central) to be innate) (3) Collect data Experiment, Native speaker intuitions, observational descriptive (4) Interpret results Cause-and-effect, Simplicity, statistics argument [Empiricism] [Rationalism] ; ;1.3 A Brief History of Psycholinguistics; 1.4 Main contents of psycholinguistics;1.5 Staring point: Neurolinguistics ;Brain mechanisms and language ;Outline of human brain;The cortex is divided into lobes: frontal额叶 temporal枕叶 parietal 顶叶 occipital lobes后叶 Microstructures: neurons, networks ~10 billion neurons in hum