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Growth Point
A growth point is a technical term in cognitive linguistics and gesture research. It refers to the earliest beginnings of a spoken utterance In spoken language analysis, an utterance is a continuous piece of speech, often beginning and ending with a clear pause. In the case of oral languages, it is generally, but not always, bounded by silence. Utterances do not exist in written langu ... in the mind of a speaker, combining the beginnings of a mimetic gesture with the preliminary verbal expression of the person's thought.McNeill, D.1992. '' Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought.. ''Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press References {{Reflist Psycholinguistics Cognitive linguistics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cognitive Linguistics
Cognitive linguistics is an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, combining knowledge and research from cognitive science, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and linguistics. Models and theoretical accounts of cognitive linguistics are considered as psychologically real, and research in cognitive linguistics aims to help understand cognition in general and is seen as a road into the human mind. There has been scientific and terminological controversy around the label "cognitive linguistics"; there is no consensus on what specifically is meant with the term. Background The roots of cognitive linguistics are in Noam Chomsky’s 1959 critical review of B. F. Skinner’s ''Verbal Behavior''. Chomsky's rejection of behavioural psychology and his subsequent anti-behaviourist activity helped bring about a shift of focus from empiricism to mentalism in psychology under the new concepts of cognitive psychology and cognitive science. Chomsky considered linguistics as a subfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utterance
In spoken language analysis, an utterance is a continuous piece of speech, often beginning and ending with a clear pause. In the case of oral languages, it is generally, but not always, bounded by silence. Utterances do not exist in written language; only their representations do. They can be represented and delineated in written language in many ways. In oral/spoken language, utterances have several characteristics such as paralinguistic features, which are aspects of speech such as facial expression, gesture, and posture. Prosodic features include stress, intonation, and tone of voice, as well as ellipsis, which are words that the listener inserts in spoken language to fill gaps. Moreover, other aspects of utterances found in spoken languages are non-fluency features including: voiced/un-voiced pauses (i.e. "umm"), tag questions, and false starts, or when someone begins uttering again to correct themselves. Other features include fillers (i.e. "and stuff"), accent/dialect, deict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimetic Theory Of Speech Origins
In evolutionary anthropology and evolutionary linguistics, the mimetic theory of speech originsHans Joas, Daniel R. Huebner (eds.), ''The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead'', University of Chicago Press, 2016, p. 326. is an analysis of the factors leading to the evolution of language in human ancestors, typically during the ''Homo erectus'' era. This theory is most commonly associated with Merlin Donald, who developed the idea in his 1991 book ''Origins of the Modern Mind.'' He viewed mimetic theory as the fundamental pillar in his three-part model of the development of symbolic culture and symbolic cognition. Overview The mimetic theory of development was the central pillar in Donald's three-part model of symbolic cognition proposed in his 1991 book ''Origins of the Modern Mind''. ''Origins of the Modern Mind'' proposes a three-stage development of human symbolic capacity through culture: Mimetic culture: The watershed adaptation allowing humans to function as symbolic and cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind and brain; that is, the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend, and produce language. Psycholinguistics is concerned with the cognitive faculties and processes that are necessary to produce the grammatical constructions of language. It is also concerned with the perception of these constructions by a listener. Initial forays into psycholinguistics were in the philosophical and educational fields, due mainly to their location in departments other than applied sciences (e.g., cohesive data on how the human brain functioned). Modern research makes use of biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, and information science to study how the mind-brain processes language, and less so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
