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14 Cards in this Set
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Name the four universals of human language:
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1. semanticity (parsing sound into meaning)
2. discrete infinity of words 3. embedded clauses 4. recursive generativity (infinite combinations of meanings, arbitrariness means lying possible) |
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give two pieces of evidence for the modular functioning of the brain
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1. Williams syndrome: great language, absolutely no cognitive skills
2. damage to certain parts of the brain: cognition intact, language destroyed (broca's area) |
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What's the Wada test?
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anesthetic shuts down one hemisphere at a time, used to determine which functions lateralize to which hemisphere
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What's up with Broca's Area
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respondsible for production. If damaged, comprehension still good, can't produce.
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What's up with the Arcuate Fascicles?
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Arcuate Fascicles connect Broca to Wernicke. --> conduction aphasia, spontaneous speech difficult as is repeating words
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What's up with Wernicke's Area
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respondsible for comprehension. Very fluid production but it means nothing
WWWWasimmer, du LABBERST! |
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LH does what?
RH does what? |
LH - language production, comprehension
RH - Prosody (intonation, sarcasm, the acting bits) |
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Examples for proto-language areas in...
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chimps, apes, bonobos, macaque monkeys. LH activation after vocalization
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Pro chompsky, anti skinner argument
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1. generativity
2. prepared learning 3. poverty of stimulus argument 4. language teaching is new |
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Equipotentiality; what is it, who discovers it?
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Eimas study: infants distinguish all sounds
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neural commitment
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categorical boundaries form that are language specific
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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language influences thought
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examples for sapirwhorf
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amazonian tribes: only have certain numbers
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whats the language gene
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FOXP2, seen in lots of animals, human rapid evolution of FOXP2
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