PSY260H1 Lecture : Language Acquisition
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Initial language learning, not learning a second language. Language is a coded representation of social communication; thoughts, feelings, etc. This difference is the symbolic and coding nature of language. Broca"s area: production of language, although not exclusively. Language comes in a phonetic and an autographic form. Phonetic things are oral and are produced by the organism directly to another organism. We have a written language as well; this is the autographic form of language. We learn language uniquely; we produce codification through special language areas in a way that other species cannot. These areas are specialized to deal with the sounds that are used in language. The development of these areas occurs slightly differently than other areas in the cortex, although in relatively similar ways. Areas of the cortex are basically assigned types of sound, frequencies, patterns of speech, words, etc. Phonetics or phonemic awareness is a developmental step. Printed/articulated words are interpreted in the visual/auditory cortex.
