What We Cannot Learn From Neuroanatomy About Language Learning and Language Processing. Commentary on Uylings

What We Cannot Learn From Neuroanatomy About Language Learning and Language Processing. Commentary on Uylings

Cognitive neuroscience aims at specifications of human cognition as instantiated in the human brain. This requires that information from multiple levels be taken into consideration and that information at one level be used to guide the investigations at another level. With regard to the human language faculty, linguistics specifies structural descriptions of the relevant knowledge types such as...

What genes can't learn about language.

H uman language has long been viewed as a product of both genes and individual external experience or culture, but the key puzzle has always been to assess the relative contribution of each. Is language more like fashion hemlines or more like the number of fingers on each hand? On the one hand, we know that all normal people, unlike any cats or fish, uniformly grow up speaking some language, ju...

What Do We Know About Language Equations?

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the relationship between locus of control and iranian efl university students’ beliefs about language learning

this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...