PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Expressive Aphasia, Temporal Lobe, Speech Perception
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Structure: has structural principles such as a grammar or a system of rules and principles. Structure that has to do with sound (phones) that specifies the properties of expression. Localization: various physical mechanisms specific language centers in the brains of the brain. Uses particular areas of the brain; different types of brain injury. Use: used for expression of thought, establishing social relationships, communication of ideas, clarifying ideas. The way we choose to convey an idea is regular and consistent. Language is arbitrary: e. g. : there is nothing inherent in a water bottle, it"s just an arbitrary association of letters and words that made up the word water bottle. Monkeys holding each other"s hands doesn"t convey language because: It is not arbitrary (arbitrary: there"s nothing about the sound i"m producing that communicates the ideas of the message; e. g. : bee"s job of finding the food is not language)