PS102 Lecture 3: Chapter 8 –Language (pages 348-366)
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When it"s injured/losses: often due to stroke. People suffered from stroke often suffer from not being able to speak or have trouble speaking. If its on the right side, it"s not broca"s area. If you get that area injured, you can speak but you have difficulty understanding spech. Have a finite vocabulary that can be combined in infinite ways: These are regularities of language (not necessarily grammar rules) Object (cat or dog), action (bites), abstractions, quality . Most language is directed at and around others, social activity. Need to know the sounds, words, sentences of language and principles of conversation. Child, loved one, stranger, employer, enemy, expert etc About 40 phonemes in english (other languages may have a different number) Fundamental unit of meaning ( s is a morpheme, the s tells us that there are many) English: 40 phonemes; more than 80,000 morphemes for the average person. Rules for combining words together into meaningful phrases.
