HDE 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Cerebral Cortex
26 Oct 2016
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Primary functions of language: communicative system and symbolic-representational system. Characteristics of human language: productivity and creativity, conventional & discrete unites, arbitrariness d. What are the requirements for learning language? a. Receive linguistic input c. be at least 1-1 years of age. Following instructions given sentence form, and producing operations ii. Reach about a level of 2 to 3 years old in language production ability b. localization. Left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex i. ii. Broca"s area located in the frontal lobe, controls language production: wernicke"s area located in the temporal lobe, responsible for interpreting language. Plasticity the idea that the brain functioning changes in response to experience c. Receive linguistic (environmental) input: a human environment a. child-directed speech (motherese) the speech that mothers and other use with infants and young children is special: high-pitched tones, simplified forms of adult words, repetitions b. The key is to have active interaction with children. Be at least 1-1 years of age a.
