LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: List Of Muppets, Short Stature, Williams Syndrome

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 200
• Professor: Liz Smeets

Document Summary

Japanese writing presented: kana- syllabic-corresponds to a sound in the language, kanji- logophoric- characters symbolize a concept. Japanese people with left-hemisphere damage are impaired in their ability to read kana: sound related. Japanese people with right-hemisphere damage are impaired in their ability to read kanji: word meaning, semantic. Wernicke"s area: language is modular, largely independent from other cognitive systems with which it interacts, memory, auditory system, etc. Language development alone is modular: acquired vs. innate impairment, brain damage causes a loss in language ability, broca"s and wernicke"s aphasia. Innate impairment-- children are behind in "normal" language development: sli, aka-- mixed-receptive expressive language disorder(communication and comprehension), expressive language disorder, language delay, goes on and on, language specific deficit, typically diagnosed between ages 3 and 8. "she rides the horse" vs. "she ride the horse: problems forming "do" questions. "does he like me?" vs. "he like me?: subject- auxiliary inversion. "is he going home" vs. "he is going home: past-tense morphology.