PSYCO377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Agraphia, Spoken Word, Phoneme
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Ch 19 disorders of language - more than just speech, signing as well. Phonemes - fundamental language sounds ( p; b; sh ) Morphemes - smallest meaningful units of words ( dog unbreakable ) Can be prfixes (-non, -un) but still have meaning. Lexicon - collection of all the words in a language (vocabulary) Discourse - stringing sentences together to form a meaningful narrative. Semantic ( banana for apple phonology ( play glove ) neologisms based on phonology ( brine instead of bread ) Syntax error i"m gonna runned to the store . Demonstrates that kids have learned a rule, but they are mis applying it. Paragrammatic: functional words are replaced with inappropriate ones. Reading is common between different ways of doing it (like sign) Sts cross modal matching vision comprehension and you get auditory gets matching. Mcgurk effects bah vs fah braille matching to somatosensory input (still matching included) Gestural language and vocal language depend on similar neural systems.