PSY312H1 Lecture Notes - Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Neurolinguistics
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Lecture 5: language development: phonological (sound), thought to involve theories of pattern recognition part of schema, becomes automatic. From long-term memory: semantic (meaning) smallest unit of meaning. Contextual words-not clearly understand what it is related to. Bleeding me dry: syntactic (grammar): telegraphic speech (two words), rules for words. Ie/ brave young snoopy withstood the cat"s sharp blows. Snoopy was brave, cats blows, sharp blows: pragmatic (context/communication): my what a beautiful day-when there is a storm, sarcasm. The troops marched into battle for two hours. Listener has to be sensitive to the meaning of language. Lad, learning quickly, parts of the brain comprehends-wernke and produce-broca. Bilingual: intelligence increases -trilingual: no more increase -more languages: intelligence decreases. Neurolinguistics: a special branch of linguistics which studies the physical structure of the brain as it relates to language production and comprehension. Left hemisphere at the cortex involved in comprehending and producing language.
