LIN 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Deixis, Dyslexia, Neurology
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Reading and writing extend our ability to use language! They were developed independently by several different cultures (mayans, Reading and writing do not have a critical period - they can be learned at any point either in adulthood or childhood! taught/learned instead of acquired. It piggybacks on the neurology that supports language. Distributed mostly in the left hemisphere of the brain and activates many of the same parts of the brain that language does. Read as morphemes/words > linked to meaning > syntax is parsed. According to evolution, language is too new to have had an affect on the human brain. Sign languages don"t have their own written languages. Signers have to learn asl to speak, but english to read and write. Attempts to create a written language for asl have not caught on. A learning disorder in which people may struggle with . Can be affected by writing style and instruction style.
