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  2. Alvin Liberman - Wikipedia

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    This is also known as the "motor theory of speech perception". Liberman ascribed this to the human biological disposition towards speech as opposed to reading which is not ingrained genetically. In one of his articles, Liberman mentioned speech production is easy to create as it relies on the "conscious awareness of phonological structure". [11]

  3. Psychoanalytic conceptions of language - Wikipedia

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    Secondly, psychoanalytic theory is linked in many ways to linguistic phenomena, such as parapraxes. According to Sigmund Freud the essential difference between modes of thought characterized by primary (irrational, governed by the id) as opposed to secondary (logical, governed by the ego and external reality) thought processes is one of ...

  4. Social interactionist theory - Wikipedia

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    Social interactionist theory (SIT) is an explanation of language development emphasizing the role of social interaction between the developing child and linguistically knowledgeable adults. It is based largely on the socio-cultural theories of Soviet psychologist, Lev Vygotsky .

  5. Talcott Parsons - Wikipedia

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    Parsons had asked Schütz to give a presentation at the rationality seminar, which he did on April 13, 1940, and Parsons and Schütz had lunch together afterward. Schütz was fascinated with Parsons' theory, which he regarded as the state-of-the-art social theory, and wrote an evaluation of Parsons' theory that he kindly asked Parsons to comment.

  6. Nelson Cowan - Wikipedia

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    Nelson Cowan is the Curators' Distinguished Professor [1] of Psychological Sciences [2] at the University of Missouri.He specializes in working memory, the small amount of information held in mind and used for language processing and various kinds of problem solving.

  7. Developmental psychology - Wikipedia

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    Research in developmental psychology has some limitations but at the moment researchers are working to understand how transitioning through stages of life and biological factors may impact our behaviors and development. [5] Developmental psychology involves a range of fields, [2] such as educational psychology, child psychopathology, forensic ...

  8. Herbert Blumer - Wikipedia

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    Upon his graduation in 1921 with a bachelor's degree and in 1922 with a master's degree (both from the University of Missouri), [8] Blumer secured a teaching position at the University of Missouri. Then, in 1925, he relocated to the University of Chicago , a university where he was greatly influenced by the social psychologist George Herbert ...

  9. Communication accommodation theory - Wikipedia

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    Under the influence of social psychology, especially social identity theory, communication accommodation theory are guided by mainly four assumptions. There are speech and behavioral similarities and dissimilarities in all conversations. The way we perceive the speech and behaviors of another determines our evaluation of the conversation.