Final terms Flashcards
Metalinguistic Awareness
Looking at formal properties rather than intended meaning of utterance (sensitivity to grammaticality, synonymy, rhyming etc.)
Broca’s Aphasia
- Paralyzed patient couldn’t speak but had other normal functions
- Lesion on left frontal lobe
- Concept of cerebral dominance of language in left hemisphere
- Halting, slow, speech timing and normal sentence intonation are disturbed
- Substitution of one sound for another
- +zero morphology languages omit morphology, -zero morphology languages substitute morphologies
- No problem with lexicon
- Agrammatism- lack of syntax, diminished morphology
- Not merely speech deficit or production deficit, rather loss of morphosyntactic competence
- Semantic irreversibility- patient’s ability to reverse syntax (the girl is loved by the boy) is impaired
Wernicke’s Aphasia
- Affects posterior cortex in left hemisphere (between parietal and temporal)- second langauge area
- Fluent speech but made no sense, lack of comprehension
- Meaningless neologisms- paraphasia
- Difficulty recalling lexical items especially nouns (anomia)
- Reading and writing very impaired
Conduction Aphasia
Like Wernicke’s aphasia but with good comprehension- semantically anomalous
Function of left hemisphere
Reasoning, math, logic, language
Function of right hemisphere
holistic function (pattern matching, face recognition), spacial abilities, processing of non-linguistic sounds, pragmatic knowledge
Manner of Acquisition hypothesis
-Formally learned languages are not less lateralized than the native language
Stage hypothesis
Initial stages of language have more RH movement, growing proficiency leads to L2 being more left lateralized
Modified stage hypothesis
L2 is less lateralized only in adults learning L2 in a naturalistic setting without formal instruction (no evidence)
Amnesia vs. Aphasia
- Amnesia- explicit knowledge is affected
- Aphasia- implicit knowledge is affected
Motivation
In L1 and informally learned L2, limbic system is highly involved because of high motivation/ emotion, more long term memory of language. Not present in formally learned L2.
Selective Aphasia
symptoms only in 1 language
Parallel recovery
all languages recovered to same extent
Selective recovery
only one language is recovered
Differential recovery
one language is recovered better
Antagonistic recovery
Languages are not concurrently available- as L2 becomes available, L1 regresses and disappears
Blending recovery
Patient unable to speak one language at a time, mixes both