linguistics - Concepts

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Concepts

Conceptual Blending - A cognitive process where elements from different mental spaces are selectively combined to produce new emergent meaning and understanding.
Cognitive Science - The interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence, integrating psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and anthropology.
Psycholinguistics - The study of the psychological and neurobiological processes that enable humans to acquire, produce, comprehend, and store language.
Universal Grammar - Noam Chomsky's theory that humans are born with an innate language faculty containing a set of grammatical principles hard-wired into the brain.
Linguistic Relativity - The hypothesis that the structure of a language influences its speakers' perception, cognition, and worldview.
Zipf's Law - An empirical law stating that the frequency of any item is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table.