PSYCH 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anomic Aphasia, Roman Jakobson, Agrammatism
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Behavior is determined by more than the stimulus-response principles of behaviorism; instead it is a set of active information processing systems . Theories of language were folk theories (production & word comprehension) Linguistics had shown that language has structure. Perhaps neural representation reflected this linguistic structure -> Distinguished disorders of similarity (i. e. , selection) and. Agrammatism was of the latter type identified early on (kussmaul, 1881 and others) telegraphic speech. Argued for semantic aphasia (anomia or amnesic aphasia), and. Sometimes a fluent aphasia can look nonfluent if word-finding or excessive paraphasias leads to hesitation or repeated correction attempts, as in conduction aphasia. Speech errors roughly at the word level. Errors can result in real words: puck for cup. If word is grossly distorted it is called a neologism. Often related in meaning in which case they may be called semantic paraphasia. Tendency to omit grammatical function words in speech production.
