PSYCH 350 Lecture Notes - Noam Chomsky, Receptive Aphasia, Cerebral Cortex
27 Feb 2013
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Note: children can detect and readily use these rules to create meaningful utterances with little guidance: pragmatics - rules for using language effectively within a social context. Brock"s area is the portion of the cerebral cortex that controls expressive language. Expressive aphasia, loss of the ability to speak fluently. Wernicke"s area is the portion of the cerebral cortex that controls language comprehension. Receptive aphasia, loss of the ability to comprehend speech. Universal grammar, innate system of language categories and principles which predisposes children to discover the general linguistic properties of any language. Drive to find structure in language pervasive in many studies: nonsense words; wug, wugs, deaf community in nicaragua where individuals created their own version of sign language with generational effects. Connectionist models, emphasizes the roles of experience in the unfolding of increasing ones complex language abilities and skills, particularly good at modeling children"s acquisition of vocabulary and syntactical development.
