- Can two people who speak different languages communicate?
- Two approaches
- Translation is possible
- Translation is essentially impossible
- linguistic determinism
- linguistic relativism
- Sometimes called “Whorfian hypothesis” or “Sapir-Whorf hypothesis”
Does language affect thought? - Nonlinguistic observables
- drum no longer contains gasoline
- gasoline drum without gasoline
- null and void, negative, inert
Logogen model (Morton 1969) - Logogens specify word’s attributes
- Activated in two ways
- By sensory input
- By contextual information
- Access (recognition) when reach threshold
- Different thresholds depending on different factors
- Access makes information associated with word available
- The lexical entry for each word comes with a logogen
Logogen model (Morton 1969) - Think of a logogen as being like a ‘strength-o-meter’ at a fairground
- When the bell rings, the logogen has ‘fired’
- What makes the logogen fire?
- What happens once the logogen has fired?
- High frequency words have a lower threshold for firing
- e.g., cat vs. cot
- Spreading activation from doctor lowers the threshold for nurse to fire
- So nurse take less time to fire
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