LING 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nim Chimpsky, Phoneme, Archaic Humans

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Hendrikus Van Der Hulst

Document Summary

Broca"s area: parietal lobe, associated with movement/body orientation, perception of stimuli, recognition, discrimination, sensory, occipital lobe, visual processing, temporal lobe, auditory stimuli, memory, receptive speech (wernickes, dichotic listening experiments. They will not be able to say what they saw because the right hemisphere right side, it would cross to the left hemisphere and they would be able to say what it was. doesn(cid:495)t have language capacity. Important points: each communication system is species specific, some properties are shared while each systems may have some properties not found in others, potentially unique properties of human language, displacement, large vocab, phonology and syntax (recursion) 50,000 years old: homo floresiensis, a descendent of homo erectus; live on the island of flores, leaving africa, 1. 8mya homo erectus left, 100,000ya homo sapiens left. The evolution of language: meaning to form: pioneers in search for the first language.