Abstract
Cognitive psychology is surely regarded very close and relevant to linguistic studies and psycholinguistics, to some extent, puts the two together. Despite this long tradition of co-sitting, the language side has been somehow inferior, generally receiving contributions from cognitive psychology and rendering less of its own. The implicit reading in this article is that language can provide very insightful perceptions regarding human cognition and that language-oriented approach to the structure and the development of human cognition should be considered instead. Language could be the ground that important theories have been evaluated and tested. Further, advanced research in language studies may ‘fire back’ and provide clues to the structuring and the establishment of human cognitions structures. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2s2p176
Highlights
Cognitive psychology is surely regarded very close and relevant to linguistic studies and psycholinguistics, to some extent, puts the two together
Nowadays there is growing need for language research to address, in a reliable way, concepts and constructions already established in cognitive psychology and neurosciences, about the structuring and the establishment of such structures in our brain
Research into language grammar and more particular issues relating to the category and categorical matter has shown that it needs deeper insight, such that is generally associated with cognitive psychology and neurosciences, for questions like:
Summary
Piaget’s constructivism and Chomsky’s inneism have been important moments in cognitive psychology They provide opposite alternatives regarding the establishment of cognitive structures in general and language structures in particular. There is quite a gap between the theoretical general linguistics which may link to cognitive psychology, and the concrete language analysis This view has been hotly contested by generativists, in most part it is yet not widely known in linguistics and, while there is not much evidence in support, there is not much evidence against it. Piaget believes that the turbulence is provided from the outer environment, and affects the process through fluctuations The latter are accommodated to varying scales into the newly developed structures of re-equilibrium. One important theme posited by constructivism is auto-regulation, which Piaget seems to offer as the third alternative as opposed to Lamarckism and Darwinism. The scientific dilemma is whether the development proceeds on the basis of the pre-wired structures, programmed to develop as they do (the inneistic approach) or the development flows through a process of auto-regulation and self-organization (the constructivist approach)
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