The Psycho Linguist

We talk more about word selection errors, the supremely annoying tip of the tongue phenomenon, and introduce working memory. WM is a difficult concept, but it's also an important one. Check out this quick image of Oberauer's WM model before listening: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3856/14800947902_1de10ecbd0.jpg Coincidentally, I had chosen this title BEFORE Canvas decided to massively fail this afternoon. Go figure.

Is the structure of a sentence separate from the words we choose to go in a sentence? How do we end up with more speech errors like, "They pulled an ocean out of the boot," than non-grammatical errors like, "They pulled a ocean out of the boot," or non-same-part-of-speech errors like, "They oceaned a boot out of the pull?" What can that tell us about how we think? What about our pauses during speech? Are they meaningless? Are they just indicators of punctuation? Or is there something deeper we can

I introduce some of the main historical perspectives on language science in this lecture. While editing it, I realized I was saying “Skinnerian” to describe “Chomskyan” or “Universal Grammarian” ideas for a while. I definitely want you to know that Skinnerians believe in strict behaviorism while Universal Grammarians believe in an innate language ability. When I’m talking about Universal Grammar, innateness, or a Language Acquisition Device, I mean Chomskyans. Even if I accidentally said