PSYA02H3 Final: Psych A02 Exam Notes
52
PSYA02H3 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
52 documents
Document Summary
Sentence words (grammar), morphemes (meanings), phonemes (sounds) Phonemes the individual sounds of a word created by tongue and lip movements. Morphemes meanings (parts) of each word, groups of phonemes. Bibabial plosives both lips involved in producing a phoneme, explosive sound, holding lips and releasing. Alveolar fricatives friction sound, vibrating, tongue is up. Lexical item is are not words in vocabulary. High school students know 60 000 words. Content words (have meaning) vs. function words (sentence building words) Language is symbolic, has structure, the last bastion of human uniqueness , language is learned. Language is on the left side of the brain works more for men > women. Wernicke"s area organizes words, hears the sound first. Broca"s area plan to produce speech, thoughts. Motor cortex actual sounds and words come out. Broca"s aphasia laborious speech agrammatism no production or comprehension of complex grammar, no function. Comprehension recognizing sequences of sounds and words.
