[ANT102H5] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 99 pages long Study Guide!

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Brain is big in proportion to body size. Big brains require high energy to operate. Comprises 80% of the human brain by volume. Broca (speech; left temporal lobe) and wornicke (syntax; left temporal lobe). If broca"s area is damaged: speech function is impaired. If wornicke"s area is damaged: language comprehension is diminished but one can still hear. The human vocal apparatus (speech sounds: lungs. Everyone has a unique sound to their voice: supra (laryngeal vocal tract): above the larynx. Throat region: resonators (pharynx: oral cavity and nasal cavity): give texture and tone to voice (echo chambers of voice), articulators. Tongue, lips, teeth (gives a distinctiveness of sound): fingers and lips. Simple genetic relationship that can characterize populations (blood type). Take evolutionary tree and transfer it to language. The farther one goes from africa, the less biological diversity there is. But there are critiques against this theory. This theory is too simplistic for something as complex as language.