More Than Words | Language (Cognitive Psych #7)
Channel: Francis Simonh Bries
Date: 24/10/2020

Language is one of the things that makes the complexity of human societies possible, because it allows us to share knowledge with others. But at a psychological level, we actually do so much just to understand and produce language. In this episode, we look at language across its many complex levels. [Psych 148, Episode 7/9]

00:00 Language
01:54 PART 1 - Levels of Language Analysis
02:27 Defining Language
04:05 Psycholinguistics
04:35 Phonetics & Phonology
05:20 Grammar, Morphology, & Syntax
06:09 Semantics & Pragmatics
07:42 Conversations, Narratives, & Discourses
09:01 PART 2 - Spoken Language
09:12 Lack of Invariance
10:50 Perception Using the Speech Stimulus
12:38 Using Knowledge and Context
15:54 PART 3 - Written, Conversational, & Discursive Language
16:10 Parsing
16:21 Lexical Ambiguity
17:27 The Garden Path Model
19:21 Constraint-based Processing
22:43 Inferences & Situation Models
25:13 Establishing Common Ground
26:53 The Cooperative Principle
28:30 Epilogue

Produced by Francis Simonh Bries
Department of Psychology, University of the Philippines Diliman

[REFERENCES]

Eysenck, M. W., & Keane, M. T. (2010). Cognitive psychology: A Student's Handbook (6th ed.). Psychology Press.

Goldstein, E. B. (2019). Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience (5th ed.). Cengage.

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