CSD 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Speech Disorder, Language Processing In The Brain, Animal Communication
17 Oct 2016
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Communication: an exchange of meaning between a sender and a receiver (animals can communicate) Language: a socially shared code or conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and rule-governed combinations of those symbols. Symbols can be sounds (as in speech), letters (as in writing), or hand movements (as in sign) We represent concepts primarily through words, but must combine them to specify relationships of things/ideas/actions/etc. Mechanical aspects of planning and producing sounds for language. Receptive language: understanding, comprehension (listening, reading a book, watching a person sign) Expressive language: producing language to send a message (talking, writing, signing) Animal communication generally does not meet the criteria for language . Language is unique to the human species. Semantics: meaning of language; linguistic representation of objects, ideas, feelings, and events; also the relations between these phenomena. Ex: throw ball = action + object. Semantic disorder: problem with understanding or using word meanings (vocab)
