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Question 1

can we point to genes bein responible for language

Answer 1

yes, genetic (genotypic) localization of language

genes are important say behaviorists

Question 2

human connection is represented by

Answer 2

neurons

Question 3

nativists say about connections

Answer 3

some neural connections arise and stay without influence of experience. these connections correspond to universals (principals)

Question 4

SLI

Answer 4

no cause can be pinpointed
just becauase you have a language impairment doesnt mean youre abnormal all around
KE family chromosone 7 foxp2

Question 5

specific language elevation

Answer 5

williams syndrome
savants
like sli in that one thing can be abnormal and not the other

Question 6

lateralixation

Answer 6

brain is split into 2 hemispheres
left side is for language
important confirmation of laterization is split brain studies and dichotic listening experiments

Question 7

localization

Answer 7

like lateralization
different parts of brain are specialized for diff things
modularity

Question 8

areas important for language

Answer 8

frontal lobe (brocas) temporal (wernickes)

Question 9

looking localizing functions in the brain

Answer 9

measuring electricity
measuring blood flow
brain stimulation during surgery
non instruent experiment diotech listening

Question 10

aphasia

Answer 10

loss of language capabilites due to brain damage

Question 11

split brain patient

Answer 11

halves no longer connected by corpus callosum

Question 12

brocas aphasia

Answer 12

many grammatical errors, impaired speech, syntax is simple or not present. know what they want to say but cant produce it

Question 13

wernickes aphasia

Answer 13

fluent speech but inconsistent content

Question 14

ethology

Answer 14

study of animal behavior and cognitiion

Question 15

communication can be

Answer 15

intraspecies

interspecies

Question 16

communication

Answer 16

purposefully transit a form that willinfluence behavior and create a response

Question 17

animal communication systems are not language

Answer 17

they’re not language

Question 18

language is human mind specific

Answer 18

yes

Question 19

vervet monkeys

Answer 19

communication is conspecific (members of same species)

innate system of calls that do not change only mature to be more accurate

Question 20

bee dance

Answer 20

innate system
use it to convey info
round dance, tail wagging dance, sickle dance
can make infinite dances becaause bee language is gradient and continous

Question 21

bird songs

Answer 21

innate, complex, critical period

Question 22

theory of mind

Answer 22

be able to understand someone else’s mental state

Question 23

animal language teaching

Answer 23

dolphins, alex the parrot, koko the gorilla, chimps

Question 24

alex the parrot does not have human language

Answer 24

he does not

Question 25

teaching chimps to speak failed because

Answer 25

they do not have proper vocal apparatus

Question 26

otogenetic development

Answer 26

way human mind develops in each individual

Question 27

phylogenetic development

Answer 27

accumulates human knowedge over millions of years

Question 28

the missing link

Answer 28

no evidence showing who came first man or chimp

Question 29

first representative of genus HOMO

Answer 29

2.5 million years ago

Question 30

cultural big bang

Answer 30

major artifacts in communication and language around-60,000 and -30,000

Question 31

words are signs

Answer 31

yes

words do not rely on reference

Question 32

calls are different from words

Answer 32

calls require reference

Question 33

comparative reconstruction

Answer 33

can bring us back to first human language

Question 34

what allowed us to get from proto language to first human language

Answer 34

syntax
recursion
phonology