HEAVEN could be hell, and that only in regard of what quality to have for finished perfection. The following is to compare stories on near-death experiences with known medical conditions. More→
Category: Psycholinguistics
Psychology of language, opposed to behaviorism.
Siddartha’s rainbow
T O consider Anatta or another Buddhist belief with regard to the verb to be, let us mind, entire collections of teachings were attributed to Siddhartha from reportedly a tradition that was spoken, and first committed to writing about 400 years after the Buddha’s death. More→
3. The role of feedback in language use
3.1. Sensory signal processing by the brain; 3.2. Pathway length and efficiency; 3.3. The speech act; 3.4. Inner speech; 3.5. Orienting response of linguistic component; 3.6. Module autonomy theories; 3.7. Language universalist theories; 3.8. Feedback phenomena and cognition. More→
2. The role of feedback in language learning
2.1. Language within a program perspective; 2.2. The closed-loop process of neural network forming; 2.3. Network feedback-mediated functioning; 2.4. Circular reactions in child development; 2.5. Robbie Case's executive controls theory; 2.6. Language development circular and feedback exercise; 2.7. The closed-loop behavior of egocentric language; 2.8. The generally feedback pattern in human learning and skill. More→
Grammar is always a project
GRAMMAR is never a program, though there have been attempts to make such a picture. Behaviorist approaches to speech and language can never be "purely scientific", as they are not objectively representative: there is much more to language than stimulus and response. More→
FAQ: Generative & Universal Grammar
ARE there actually Language Acquisition Devices in human brains? Can brains be programmed? Could language be a result of genetic mutation? Is there one definitive grammar we could call "the true grammar"? More→
The Role of Feedback in Language Processing
Tests by Ladefoged showed speech and language dependence on feedback without exception. Human DNA requires cellular feedback for active protein, that is, everyday living. In tests on volunteers, human endurance under feedback impoverishment has proved lower than for fasting. Cellular and systemic feedback is a fact of biological life; its importance approximates a drive. More→
Introduction
Language ability is prerequisite for reasoning skills, and neural processes have been evidenced in language learning as well as use. Human language processing can be viewed as human processing of information, where terms as a system, program, and option, though correlative with computer science, do not serve close a correspondence, since natural language remains a scope of skill unmatched by artificial parsing. Human neurophysiology is the primary reference for the following discourse on the role of feedback in human language command. More→
1. Neurophysiology of feedback
Feedback in the single neuron; 1.2. Space and time in neural communication; 1.3. Human systemic dynamics; 1.4. A reflex arc; 1.5. Human reflex and voluntary behavior; 1.6. Relevant neuro-motor patterns; 1.7. Sensory compensation; 1.8. The pool model for internal balance; 1.9. Signal specificity and the human brain. More→
Grammatical Aspects, or cognitive variables?
THE idea of the grammatical Aspect comes from Antiquity. People did not know about cognitive variables then. Today, we can. More→
Human brains, parameters and devices
DICTIONARIES have a device for something devised, or a faculty that devises. Everyday language yet has a device for a thing that could be operated externally, from the outside. Association with such governance could not be my ideal. More→
Apples on noses
MS. de Lange's purpose was to compare monolingual and bilingual children in tests on syntax, that is, ways to put words together. She says that to speak two languages is like to have two minds. More→
