PSYC 2800 Chapter 10: Chapter 10, part 2 Summary.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2800
• Professor: Amanda Helleman

Document Summary

Researchers have wondered whether the brain has a single system for understanding and producing language, or whether different languages are processed in different ways. The similarities among human languages are actually far more fundamental than their differences. Humans have a built in capacity for creating and using language. Human language does have a genetic basis. The complexity of language is not related to the technological complexity of a culture. Children acquire language through a series of stages that are remarkably similar across cultures. If children learn two languages simultaneously, both are represented in the same part of broca"s area. Creolization: the development of a new language from what was formerly a very rudimentary language. Children generally find it easier than adults to acquire more than one language and to speak each one with a native accent. There was a difference between childhood and adult acquisition of the second language in the activation in broca"s area but not in wernicke"s area.