学习语言而不是创造语言有多重要?
1Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USAhttp://goldin-meadow-lab.uchicago.edu/.
The Behavioral and brain sciences
|June 27, 2024
概括
理解他人的心理状态的发展可能不仅仅依赖于学习语言. 创造了自己的语言的家庭标志者可以挑战这个理论.
科学领域:
- 认知科学 认知科学
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 语言学的语言学.
背景情况:
- 核心知识概念是天生的,但理解他人的心理状态 (思维理论) 是后来发展出来的.
- 这种发展往往与语言学习和社会互动有关.
研究的目的:
- 研究语言学习与语言创造在社会代理概念的发展中的作用.
- 检查家庭标志者作为一种潜在的反例,以假设语言学习对于开发共享精神状态概念至关重要.
主要方法:
- 对现有关于语言学习和思想理论的假设进行分析.
- 考虑家庭标志者的语言和社会认知发展.
主要成果:
- 家庭标志者创造了新的语言,表明了独立于外部语言输入的象征性沟通能力.
- 他们对社会代理概念的发展为理解语言和认知之间的相互作用提供了一个独特的案例研究.
结论:
- 语言的创造,而不仅仅是学习,可能有助于发展理解他人作为社会代理人的能力.
- 这些发现表明,语言与思维理论的出现之间的关系比以前提出的要复杂得多.
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