PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Foxp2, Dementia, Fast Mapping
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What is language: early studies of language. Aphasia: a language disorder caused by damage to the brain structures that support using and understanding language. Broca"s area: region of the left frontal lobe that controls our ability to articulate speech sounds that compose words. Wernicke"s area: area of the brain most associated with finding the meaning of words. Language: a form of communication that involves the use of spoken, written, or gestural symbols that are combined in a rule-based form. Can involve communication about objects and events that aren"t in the present time and place. Passed down from generation to generation: phonemes and morphemes: the basic ingredients of language. Ability to combine units of sound into an infinite number of meanings. Individual phonemes typically don"t have any meaning by themselves. Morphemes: smallest meaningful units of a language. Ex: adding suffixes to produce words pig [morpheme] + /-ish/ [morpheme] = piggish.
