Language Flashcards
What is hyper scanning?
Neural signal of 2 or more people simultaneously to relate them to each other.
What are the similarities between human and animal communication?
Dialect, syntax, signal, modality, complex systems and genes linked with communication.
What are the differences between human and animal communication?
Animals only communicate here and now whereas humans communicate in tenses. Animals communication is not productive or it is limited, understanding to create new signals and words if necessary in humans.
What is Skinner’s verbal language behaviour theory?
Children learn language through operant conditioning, imitate speech they hear because its rewarded.
What is Chomsky’s theory on language behaviour?
The ability for verbal language is innate, children say sentences that have never been rewarded, e.g. incorrect grammar.
What is psycholinguistics?
Scientific field that is dedicated to discover psychological processing of language.
What are the levels of processing?
Phonemes, classifying relevant language sound.
Words, retrieving word meaning.
Discourse , placed into a situation/meaning.
What is the mental lexicon?
Contains all the words a person understands.
What is lexical semantics?
The meaning of each word.
What is syntactic processing?
Understanding relations between words.
What is discourse integration?
Relating and embedding meaning in context.
What is Orthographic?
How language is written, recognising a word.
What is phonological?
Auditory understanding.
What is an example of the tip of the tongue phenonmemon?
Cannot think of the phonological meaning but can recall the semantic. Or can read words without taking in the understanding or meaning, can say a word without the meaning but still understand it.
What is the phonemic restoration effect?
Phonemes can be perceived when an extraneous noise covers up half of the sentence, using top-down processing, even if there is not meaning to the sound.
Also the meaning of the word can be recognised in a sentence is said word has multiple meanings dependant on context.
What is the idea of recognising boundaries in speech?
Speech segmentation, can separate words that are said too quickly.
What is the patient study for speech production?
Broca’s patient Tan Tan, could understand semantics e.g. amount of fingers being shown but could only produce the words Tan Tan due to damage to the Brocas area in the brain.
What is the patient study for speech comprehension?
Wrenickes study showed a patient who could speak perfectly but did not understand the meaning of the words they were producing due to damage in the Wrenickes area.
What does the Broca’s area do?
Produce speech, formulate sentence structure and understand it from others and order language sound units.
What does the Wrenickes area do?
Language comprehension, holds a large representation of messages and processes meaning to hold as memory.
