Chapter SixLanguage and Cognition1
What is Cognition
Mental processes of an individual, information processing Mental process or faculty of knowing, including awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment
2Three approaches to the study of language and cognition: The formal approach: addresses the structural patterns, including the study of morphological, syntactic, and lexical structure
The psychological approach: looks at language from the perspective of general cognitive systems ranging from perception, memory, attention to reasoning
PSYCHOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS心理语言学 The conceptual approach: addresses how language structures (processes & patterns) conceptual content
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Psycholinguistics4 Psychological aspects of language Psychological states and