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The ability to produce and understand linguistic messages is found in the…
The ability to produce and understand linguistic messages is found in the brain.
Neurolinguistics :
study
The relationship between language and the brain.
The way language is represented in the brain.
The focus on brain mechanisms.
Language areas in the brain
:
Important parts
Broca’s Area :
It is located in the left hemisphere.
Language production
Wernicke’s Area
Language comprenhesion
It is located in the left hemisphere.
Motor Cortex
It is located within the frontal lobe of the brain.
Associated with the physical articulation of speech
Arcuate Fasciculus
It connects the temporal cortex and the inferior parietal cortex.
Its function is to connect Broca's and Wernicke's areas.
Tongue Tips and Slips
Tip and types of slips
The Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon
Difficulty remembering a known word.
Words of similar form and meaning are remembered.
Slips of the Tongue
Is a mistake in speaking.
Is a speech error in which a sound or word is produced in the wrong place.
Slips of the Brain
It is a substitution of words for similar inappropriate words.
Types
:
Perseveration
One sound carried over to next
word.
Anticipation
One sound used before next word.
Exchange
Sounds change places.
Slips of the Ear
Is a processing error in which one word or phrase is heard as another.
The brain tries to make sense of the auditory signal it receives.
Aphasia
Definition and causes
stroke or traumatic head injury
It is a language disorder caused by a localized brain damage.
Types
Broca’s Aphasia
Consists of short sentences that are produced with much effort.
Wernicke’s Aphasia
Consists of fluent but difficult to understand speech
Conduction Aphasia
Consists of the difficulty of repeating words or phrases.
Dichotic Listening
Consist
It is a technique for the study of cerebral lateralization or hemispheric asymmetry.
Establishes
Everything experienced on the right side of the body is processed in the left hemisphere
Everything experienced on the left side is processed in the right hemisphere.
Left brain, Right brain
Left hemisphere
Language sounds
Analytic processing
Rigth hemisphere
Non-language sounds
Holistic processing
The Critical Period
It is the time from birth to puberty during which normal first language acquisition can take
place
Known as the sensitive
period.
Wendy Esmeralda Santamaria Ventura-SV19002
