Language Acquisition

A very helpful link that gives an overview of language acquisition. It describes all the stages of language acquisition. It is very detailed and gives specific examples. Since this a website mainly for teachers teaching students acquiring a second language, it focuses mainly on the stages of second language acquisition rather than first. It also provides recommendations and ways to help the development of second language acquisition.

http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/26751/

Here’s a set of video lectures on Youtube that discusses a sub branch of psycholinguistics, language acquisition to be more specific. The first video talks about the role of language acquisition within cognitive linguistics and the specific stages involved. The second video goes into more detail about the main developmental aspects during the acquisition process such as the babbling, one word or two word stage. The last and third video is about the main driving forces in the language acquisition process and delves into innateness of language and factors that influence a child’s language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prMGbLrbudA&list=UUaMpov1PPVXGcKYgwHjXB3g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_12OZGNGlPU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWmjpAlEqN0

Language Processing & Framing

Here’s an interesting video on how Google uses natural language processing for spelling corrections. Natural language processing has allowed for interactions between humans and computers. This process enables computers to derive meanings from human language input.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx3Fpw0XCXk

A very thorough article about cognitive framing. It describes what frames are and discusses the importance of frames. It also provides different forms of frames and a diagram to help us better understand it.

http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/framing

The following two links are also about framing. The first one talks about the framing effects while the second one is about the frame theory.

http://www.adsavvy.org/the-power-of-framing-effects-and-other-cognitive-biases/

http://www.csun.edu/~rk33883/Framing%20Theory%20Lecture%20Ubertopic.htm

Language in the Brain

A very simple yet informative video on the language areas of the brain and the effects of damage to those parts of the brain. It also talks about aphasia and split brain patients.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBqShvm4QRA

A website that talk about the types and causes of speech and language disorders. It also shows the areas in the brain that ar  e affected in each disorder.

http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/hurley/Ling102web/mod5_Llearning/5mod5.2_disorders.htm

This website goes into very specific details about the Broca’s, Wernicke’s and other language processing areas in the brain. It also includes a model of spoken language functions in the brain, discusses how handedness affects brain lateralization and how the right hemisphere contributes to language.

http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d_10/d_10_cr/d_10_cr_lan/d_10_cr_lan.html

Talks about what happens to the brain when we listen and speak and how we process these words to form a response.

http://www.pimsleurapproach.com/resources/language-research/language/how-language-is-processed-in-the-brain/