Homework: Bring some piece of my own reading that deals with language and the brain.
Book Recommendations:
- The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
- Rethinking Linguistic Relativity (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)
- Not everyone can be a mathematician, but everyone is a linguist in a manner of speaking.
- Linguistic Determinism (Language Shapes Thought) and Linguistic Relativity (We see reality through our native language).
- Is it naive to believe that there is a universal mentalese?
- Does language support or influence thought?
- Language is not a prerequisite for thought.
- Language and culture are inseparable/interchangeable.
- Pinker and Whorf (Determinism/Relativity) are at odds.
- Pre-linguistic children have thoughts but do not have language.
- Thought of language vs. Language of thought.
- Is there some other aspect of language than just thinking and speaking? (The Psychosis of language?)
- Grammatical constructions are not a prerequisite for being able to express a concept.
- Neurolinguistics – Language in the brain.
- Differences between Human and Ape’s brains:
- Frontal Lobes
- Compartments
- One More Book Rec.
- Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought
