Definitions: w1 language Flashcards
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Aphasia
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A disorder result of brain damage that affects speech
2
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Generativity
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Ability to produce sentences that have never been said and the ability to understand them
3
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Prevarication
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Lying
4
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Sound Symbolism
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The perceptual connection between words/concept’s. Like ding and ding
5
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Syntax
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The order of words to form to a sentence
6
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Brocas area
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A region responsible for speech, frontal left side
7
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Lexigram
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Symbol that graphically represents a word or concept.
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Linguistic Determinism
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The way the language one speaks affects the way one sees the world
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Egocentric v Allocentric
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Our point of view v recalling, memory etc
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Mentalese
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Mental thought/language
