心理语言学 Psycholinguistics

Week 1

Week 2

Human Language Features

• Experiment Design
• Research Techniques
• Brain Anatomy
• Literature search and management

Animal Communication Systems

Four Fs proposed by ethologists - Food - Foe - Friend - Finding a mate i.e.
The wingle dance of bees
Alarm calls of monkeys

Human Language

• Laugh

  Female laughs more

• Speech

  Speech
  Signed language (手语)
  Reading and writing

• Rules, structures, and arbitary symbols

  Morphology
  Phonology

• Pyrimid scheme

  Phoneme
  Phones
  Phonology

• Sentences and discourse

Evolution of Language

• Out of Africa
• Hopeful monster
• A language gene
• Long time no see

  Pidgin (混杂语言)
  Protolanguage

• Hash