PSYC 305L Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Bootstrapping (Linguistics), Frontal Lobe, Language Disorder
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The biological roots of language, aphasias a. i. A disruption to language capacities, often caused by brain damage a. ii. An area in the left frontal lobe of the brain; damage here typically causes nonfluent aphasia a. iii. A disruption of language, caused by brain damage, in which a person loses the ability to speak or write with any fluency. People with this disorder have adequate verbal comprehension but are unable to produce language a. iv. An area in the left frontal lobe of the brain; damage here typically causes fluent aphasia. a. v. A disruption of language, caused by brain damage, in which afflicted individuals are able to produce speech but the speech is not meaningful, and the individuals are not able to understand what is said to them. Patients seem able to talk freely ut they actually say very: the biology of language learning little b. i. b. ii. b. iii. Almost every child at 3 or 4 is able to converse at a reasonable level.
