AUPSY 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Aphasia, Roast Beef, Sarah Scott

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY 263
• Professor: Kathie Bailey

Document Summary

Physical social setting in which you hear something affects how. The patterns of pauses and pitch changes that characterizes speech production you understand it. Signal the difference between a question and an assertion. What happened to the roast beef? well. The knowledge of how language is actually used. Disruption in language capability, often caused by brain damage. Adequate verbal comprehension, but limited speech production ability. Some difficulty understanding some aspects of speech. An individual with nonfluent aphasia would generally understand this because they know that the apple did not eat the girl. An individual with nonfluent aphasia would have trouble understanding who pushed who. Seems to understand most questions, but sometimes comprehension is a problem due to difficulty connecting words. Speech will be grammatically correct, but incoherent. Does not understand that they are not making sense. In their head, they think they are. Difficulty understand speech and more widespread difficulty with comprehension.