Language

Question 1

Aphasia

Answer 1

language disorder caused by damage to the brain structures that support using and understanding language

Question 2

Brocca’s Area

Answer 2

region of left frontal lobe that controls our ability to articulate speech sounds and composed words

Question 3

Wernicke’s Area

Answer 3

area of brain associated with finding meaning of words

Question 4

Phonemes

Answer 4

most basic units of speech sounds

i.e. ta, s

Question 5

Morphemes

Answer 5

smallest meaningful units of a language

i.e. pig, -ish

Question 6

Productivity

Answer 6

ability to combine units of sound into an infinite number of meanings

Question 7

Semantics

Answer 7

study of how people come to understand meanings from words

Question 8

Orthography

Answer 8

word’s visual form

Question 9

Phonology/ Phonological Code

Answer 9

sounds that make up word

Question 10

Pragmatics

Answer 10

study of nonlinguistic elements of a language use

-emphasis on speaker’s behaviour and social situation i.e. I ate a 50 pound cheeseburger

Question 11

Fast Mapping

Answer 11

ability to map words into concepts or objects after only a single exposure

Question 12

Naming Explosion

Answer 12

rapid increase in vocabulary size

	          - brain begins to perform language related functions in left 					hemisphere
		- Linked with increase in amount of myelin on brain’s axons, which 				 increases speed of communication between neutrons

Question 13

Executive Functions (Executive Control)

Answer 13

ability to inhibit one language while speaking and listening to another

Question 14

Cross Fostered

Answer 14

someone raised as a member of a family that was not of the same species

Question 15

Pidgin

Answer 15

• Makeshift language created by adults who speak different languages when required to communicate

Question 16

Creole

Answer 16

-Language that results when children are collectively exposed to pidgin during critical period

Has Syntax

Question 17

Deprivation and Syntax

Answer 17

Deprivation during critical period prevents learning of syntax
Before age 6- Normal Syntax
6- Puberty- Steadily compromised
Puberty onward- Very compromised