Lecture 11 - Language and Thoughts Flashcards
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Describe the Sapir Whorf Hypothesis.
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See slide 3
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Describe linguistic relativity.
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Read slide 4 - 8
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Describe linguistic determinism.
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Read slide 9
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Do colour names determine perception of colour? (describe an experiment testing this)
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Read slide 10 - 12
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Does language influence how easy it is to distinguish colours? (describe an experiment testing this)
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See slide 14 - 19
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Does language = thought? Describe the Turing test.
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See slide 21 - 40
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Describe the Chinese Room argument (1980)
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See slide 41 - 47
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SUMMARY
Turing (1950) – if something appears to think, it thinks.
Searle (1980) disagrees.
appearance isn’t everything (Chinese Room)
Language and thought interact
Anything that has language must think
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Harley (2014), p88-100. “What is the relationship between language and thought?”
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Is linguistic relativity possible without linguistic determinism? Is the reverse possible?
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No answer available.
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What evidence suggests that colour naming is based on universal biologically determined aspects of color perception?
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No answer available.
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Can computers think?
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No answer available.
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Is the Turing Test about language or behavior more generally? What other aspects of behavior might be important and why?
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No answer available.
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Do the MCQs on LC.
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