Broca's Area Wernicke's Area
Functions:•Speech Production•Facial Neuron Control•Language Processing
Location:Directionally, Broca's area is located in the lower portion of the left frontal lobe.
Functions:•Language Comprehension•Semantic Processing•Language Recognition•Language Interpretation
Location:Wernicke's area is located in the left temporal lobe, posterior to the primary auditory complex.
All languages contain….
Phonemes• The smallest units of
sound in a language.• English has about 44
phonemes.
Morphemes• The smallest unit of
meaningful sound.• Can be words like a or
but.• Can also be parts of
words like prefixes or suffixes…”ed” at the end of a word means past tense.
How many phonemes does platypus have?
Language AcquisitionStages that we learn
language…1. Babbling Stage2. Holophrastic Stage (one
word stage)3. Telegraphic Speech
Stage• After the telegraphic
stage we get overgeneralization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxtLhgzntg8
Social Learning Theory
• B.F. Skinner from the Behaviorist School
• Baby may imitate a parent.
If they are reinforced they keep saying the word.
If they are punished, they stop saying the word.
Chomsky’s Theory(Nativist Theory)
• We learn language too quickly for it to be through reinforcement and punishment.
• Inborn universal language acquisition device
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gU-B0-DCKI&index=20&list=PLfoJWSBAwZAxpXAHjV6blIEBJWNSuvZv5
Whorf’s Linguistic Relativity• The idea that
language determines the way we think.
• The Hopi tribe has no past tense in their language.
• Whorf says they rarely think of the past.
Top Related