4- Key Considerations Flashcards
1
Q
12 methods for studying language
A
- Mistakes of children/adults
- Brain imaging
- Studying language perception/production of brain damaged patients
- Temporarily damaging or enhancing brain areas
- Building machine translation systems
- Questionnaire experiments
- Computational analyses of text corpora
- Cross-cultural studies
- Recording from monkeys
- Eye movement studies of reading
- Building computational models of reading
- Behavioural experiments
2
Q
What is Broca’s aphasia?
A
Patients have difficulty with grammar
3
Q
What is Wernicke’s aphasia?
A
Patients have difficulty with semantics
4
Q
Who have a larger vocabulary?
A
Girls, but variability is HUGE
5
Q
Who do most memory tasks favour?
A
Women
6
Q
Who do spatial tasks normally favour?
A
Men
7
Q
What 3 key principles characterise human language?
A
Generativity, recursion, and displacement
8
Q
What 4 key aspects are there of language interpretation and production?
A
Phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics
