W8 - Language Flashcards
phonemes
- speech sounds that epress meaning
- signle unit of sound that changes meaning
around 200 diff ypes of human made sounds are used in langauge
phonemes between diff. languages
they may have similar speach sounds but use them in diff. ways to signal meaning
allophonic
acousticall different but not functionally diffrent
in english: spill vs pill
phonemic
signals difference in menaing
in thai: paa (short p) vs phaa (long p)
Morphemes
the smallest language unit that carry meaning
words, suffixes and prefixes
unbound/free morphemes
words
bound morphemes
affixes and suffixes
re, pre, un and ing, er, s
morphemes= words
content
morphemes= affixes and suffixes
Function (grammatical)
semantic language processing relise on processing what?
content words:
Content words map onto concepts
Concept is a unit of semantic memory
Categories – Lecturers, caves, dogs
synactic language processing relies on processing what?
function words (unbound morphemes)
what are content words?
nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
what are function words?
pronouns, prepositions, conjuntives
plus words like: that, this, a, the, if, to
Aphasia
the inability to produce and understand language
Broca’s Aphasia characteristics
inability to process syntaxs
mainly talks with content words
Language-Relevant Brain Areas:
Right-handed People: left hemisphere,
mostly lower edge of frontal lobe and
upper edge of temporal lobe
Syntax
the structure of language in phrases and sentences
- rules for odering words are leraned implicity
syntax is cued by what?
Morphology
Word order
Word class
syntax - Morphology:
- bound morphemes e.g talks
- different morphemes e.g he hit him
- word order e.g john loves mary
syntax - Word order
who is doing to whom
- sunject - object - verb (can be ordered diff between languages)
Syntax - Word class
word order helps us identify the word class
- adjective, noun, verb
Wernick’s Aphasia characteristic
inability to understand word reprsenation, semantics, and mapping between phonolgy an semantics
Wernick’s Area
left temporal lobe, next to primary auditoray cortex. translates sounds into meaning