PSY 324- Chapter 10

Define aphasia

a loss of ability to produce and/or understand ordinary language 

What type of aphasia did Gabby Giffords incur?

Nonfluent aphasia

True/False: there are separate areas of the brain, one responsible for comprehension of language and one responsible for production of language.

True

Damage to the left frontal lobe of the brain, especially in a region known as ____________ area usually produces a pattern of symptoms known as non-fluent aphasia

Broca’s

Damage to a brain site called ________ area usually involves a pattern known as fluent aphasia

Wernicke’s

The organization of language relies on well-defined ___________ in how individual words are used and put together in phrases

patterns

True/False: Children who are bilingual learn both languages as quick as monolingual children learn their single language

True

What does the Wolf Children study help us conclude about lanuage?

There’s a critical period when we CAN learn language and we need to have someone to speak to

Definition of phonology?

The study of sounds that are used to convey language

Definition of speech segmentation?

This guy is falling vs the sky is falling

What is coarticulation?

When phonemes overlap

When do you figure out each words’ syntactic role?

When you parse a sentence

____________ lead you to expect _________ sentences instead of __________ sentences

Garden-path, active voice, passive voice

Piaget vs Vygotsky

Piaget said you can only learn specific things at specific stages but Vygotsky said you can learn it earlier if someone more experienced shows you how 

prescriptive rules

rules describing how language is supposed to be

descriptive rules

how language is actually used