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par Dominik Lukes Il y a 17 années

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Thinking and Language

The study of language encompasses numerous interconnected themes, each vital to understanding how humans communicate and process information. Language acquisition is a significant area, exploring the stages from infancy through childhood, detailing how individuals develop the ability to understand and produce language.

Thinking and Language

Thinking and Language

Educational policy issues

Textbook design
Foreign-language instruction
Inclusive education
Bilingual education

Research methods

Thought
Brain
Cognitive abilities

Introspection

Experiments

Language tasks (e.g. map reading)

Response speed measuring

Eye-movement tracking

Attention measuring

Second language acquisition

Interviews

Outcome studies

Observational studies

Diary studies

Language acquisition

Experimental studies

Unelicited

Elicited

Multi-child longitudinal studies

Own child observation

Recording (Language in the crib)

Note taking

Language system

Study of aphasias

Corpus studies

Frequency

Evidence of usage

Distributional analysis

Contrastive analysis

Introspection/Informants

Theories and approaches

Information Processing
Developmental psychology
Construtivist psychology
Cognitive psychology
Behavioral psychology
Gestalt psychology
Conversation analysis
Linguistic Relativism
Cognitive linguistics

Language as inventory of conventional symbolic units

Anti-modular

Usage-based approach

Functional linguistics
Generative linguistics

Modularity

Competence/Performance

LAD

Structuralism

Value of linguistic signs

Minimal oppositions

People

Psychology
Eleanor Rosch
B.F. Skinner
Jerome Bruner
Jean Piaget
Lev S. Vygotsky
Linguistics
George Lakoff
William Labov
MAK Halliday
Noam Chomsky
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Ferdinand de Saussure

Concepts

Language
Aphasias
Acquisition

Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

Poverty of stimulus argument

Learnability

Universal Grammar

Parameters

Principles

Stages of development

Timeline

6-12 years

Development of higher-level modalities

Development of textual skills

3-6 years

Increase in vocabulary (app. 1000-5000 words)

Development of adult-like sentential syntax

Overregularization

2-3 years

Discovery of patterns with increasing productivity

18 months - 2 years

Limited repertoire of words

12-18 months

Understanding commands

First words

6-12 months

Babbling

0-6 months

Important concepts

Adult competence

Bootstrapping

Telegraphese

Pivot sentences

Motherese

U-shaped curve

Functions of language

Textual

Coherence

Cohesion

Interpersonal (Social)

Language change

Group cohesion

Information

Conversation

Ideational (Meaning, information)

Sign Language

Symbolic nature

Segmentation

Mutual intelligibility

Bilingualism

Diglossia

Creolisation/Pidginisation

Language ability

Code switching

Structure

Semantics/Pragmatics

Speech acts

Implicature

Lexical meaning

Collocations

Rules

Constructions

Levels of description

Text/Discourse

Syntax

Lexicon

Morphology

Phonology

Privative oppositions

Thinking
Affective factors

Modality

Motivation

Emotion

Cognition

Complex cognitive operations

Reasoning

Reading

Comprehension

Functional literacy

Instructional approaches

Phonics

Whole word

Conceptual Integration

Metaphoric and analogic reasoning

Metaphorical inferencing

Global

Generative

Constitutive

Local

Blending

Mental spaces

Framing

Scripts

Schemas

Categorization

Basic-level categories

Prototypes

Mental operations

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Logical inferencing

Pattern recognition

Shape manipulation

Perception

Dilemmas

Limits of language
Language universals
Modularity of language
Primacy of language or thought