PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Temporal Lobe, Empiricism, Baby Talk
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Language production: the ability to speak or otherwise use words, phrases, and sentences to convey information. Language comprehension: the ability to understand the message conveyed by words, phrases, and sentences. Phonology: the structure of sounds that can be used to produce words in a language. Phoneme: the basic building block of speech sounds. Syntax: the internal structure of a sentence, determined by a set of rule( grammar) for combining different parts of speech into acceptable arrangements. Aphasia: a disruption of language caused by brain damage. Broca"s aphasia: problem with producing language following brain damage( typically to the left frontal lobe) Wernicke"s aphasia: problems with comprehending language following brain damage ( typically to the left posterior temporal lobe) Semantics: the meaning of a word or sentence. Morpheme: the smallest unit of meaning in a language. Propositional representation: a mental sentence that expresses the unambiguous/clear meaning of an assertion/ belief.
