PSY260H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neuroimaging, Sarah Scott, Aphasia
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Can have the inputs to learn language, but not enough. It"s possible that one"s ability to imitate might be a key prerequisite for learning language: not in all animals, kids w better imitative abilities develop better language skills. It appears that most words kids learn are taken in or learned thru the observational learning process. Many of the sentences humans produce have never been produced before: suggest flexibility of language skills. Dog 1 morpheme; unlikely 2 morphemes. Grammar: rules of a language that dictated how words can be altered & combined to form sentences. Use of language requires: ability to identify words, recognize word order (in dif contexts too, recognize abstract rules associated w word order (& the flexibility of the rules, recognize word categories. These are all key parts to being able to correctly identify & use a language flexibly: can be used by doctors to see where a problem is.
