PS260 Lecture Notes - Aphasia, Language Disorder, Pragmatics
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The horse {pause} raced past the barn {pause} fell. Pragmatic rules: rules that govern how people actually use a language: refers to the true meaning and other possible meanings in language. Do you know the time?" doesn"t really ask about one"s knowledge as it stated, but about what time is currently is. In the study of pragmatics, there are conversational rules of appropriateness called conversational maxims: one of these maxims is the maxim of relation says that speakers should say things that are relevant to the conversation. Impaired production (written & spoken: damage to wernicke"s area leads to fluent aphasia (i. e. , wernicke"s aphasia). Intact language production but produced speech is largely nonsensical. Yesterday i ______. : adults with sli cannot do this task apparently having failed to learn the simple principle involved in forming the past tense of regular verbs. Language emergence occurs even when communication is very limited.
