LING 3210 Quiz: First Language Acquisition.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 3210
• Professor: Chandan Narayan

Document Summary

Nonfluent/broca"s aphasia: results in the disruption of syntactic levels of representation. named after french physician paul broca left frontal area of the brain (inferior frontal gyrus) = broca"s area >close to the area that controls fine movement of lips and tongue patients with broca"s aphasia have difficulty distinguishing between agent and np example the chef burned the noodles and the noodles were burnt by the chef problem not of meaning of words but rather the relationships among them in a sentence good comprehension but difficulty pronunciations and producing words. The wild boy of averyon -> discovered in the wild living with a pack of wolves, was living like an animal himself in france (1797) brought to civilization by a young doctor. Yet despite intensive efforts to train him in language, the boy never progressed beyond the ability to name objects.