LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Aphasia, Language Disorder, Cappuccino

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Aphasia= language disorder that results from an injury to the brain. If two skills are dissociated from one another then one will be different from the other. Playing the flute and walking are dissociated: its interesting when it can tell us different things about language in unimpaired people there is about the same amount of nouns as verbs. People with aphasia has twice as many verbs as nouns: nouns and verbs are dissociated as others. Anomic phasia- has the same amount of nouns as verbs. Dissociations between noun and verb naming in aphasia. Greater brain activity for verbs vs. nouns in fmri which parts of the brain are associated while doing different tasks. Your brain is doing something different when distinguishing between nouns and verbs. The students saw them at the bean bar. The ??? their friends at the bean bar. If you can replace the string of the sentence then it is constituent.