PSYCH 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar, Function Word
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> motor cortex: broca"s aphasia- difficult with production- slow halting speech, simple grammar, no function words (be, of , the), intact comprehension, wernicke"s aphasia- fluent speech but makes little sense, made up words, word substitutions, difficulty with comprehension. Chapter 9: phonemes: smallest unit of speech sound that can be made to distinguish among sit , sat , fat , and fit . 1. produced by alternating sequences of opening and closing the vocal tract: morphemes: smallest unit of meaning within a particular language. 1. sentence comprises of at least two parts: noun phrase: contains at least one noun and includes all the relevant descriptors of the noun, verb phrase and whatever the verb acts on, if anything. 1. suggest that there are different stages of neural processing: one stage: speech sounds are. Acoustic works in a similar fashion of spreading activation. 1. seen in consonant-vowel combinations: ba, da, ga.
