PSYO 2470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Language Disorder, Developmental Coordination Disorder, Apoptosis
2 May 2017
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Rules of language are learning almost instinctively when young. Multiple types of language: spoken, visually based language. Sign language: does(cid:374)"t have to be sound based. Guess work as to when spoken language first emerged: thought to have arose about 100 000 years ago. About 5000 languages spoken on earth today. Flexibility of language as a tool to communicate: more flexible than other animal communication techniques. Language experts: very good at language, with human languages, get different interpretations from the same speeches/sentences, language shows a lot of inter-individual variation. The language we speak influences the way we think. Structure of the language we speak allows ability to pick up on things with similar structure to the language. Masculine, feminine, neutral nouns: biases (cid:449)ith (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e"d asso(cid:272)iate (cid:449)ith the (cid:449)ords. Input from visual and auditory systems: a lot in through sound but language is richer through seeing language, primary auditory cortex (superior temporal lobe) and primary visual cortex.
