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Language Acquisition Final
Final
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Undergraduate 4
04/24/2016

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Language Gene
Definition
The gene in the brain that controls language acquisition
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Which area of the brain is larger and holds the language area
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Left Hemisphere
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What suffers from left hemisphere damage
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Abstract language: speaking signing and writing are all affected
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Ungrammatical structures
Definition
increase left hemisphere activity
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EEG's show what during language use
Definition
left brain activity
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PET scans show what during language use
Definition
left hemisphere activity
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Sylvan fissure
Definition
damage to any part of this can cause language disfunction
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All chordates have what kind of control?
Definition
Contralateral: Left controls the right
right controls the left
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Better recognition of words happen when they're flashed to the
Definition
right
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Right side manual activity interferes with
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language production
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What handed people are more susceptible to language impairements
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Left
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Broca’s Aphasia
Definition
Affects language production but not understanding
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Wernicke’s Aphasia
Definition
Nouns and parts of speech confused, omitted, or altered
Suggests that Wernicke’s Area may contain the lexicon
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Conduction Aphasia
Definition
Connection between Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas (arcuate fasciculus) is damaged
Suffers cannot repeat language
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Broca/Wernicke's Aphasia
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Suffers can replicate language but not understand it or produce it spontaneously
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This is distinctly different in late bilinguals
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Broca's Area
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This does not change regardless of language learners age
Definition
Wernicke's Area
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Out of Language learning or language acquisition, which one takes more brain area?
Definition
Language learning
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What are the three designs of Nonhuman communication systems
Definition
Finite reparatory of calls Continuous analog signal that registers the magnitude of some state A series of random variations on a theme
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Human communication systems are seated in
Definition
the perisylvian area of the cerebral cortex
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Which human communications are subcortical
Definition
laughing swearing sobbing etc.
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Do chimpanzees effectively use sign language
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No.
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Analogous Traits
Definition
Common function found in different organisms
Similarity is based on function
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Homologous Traits
Definition
Common ancestor organ
Similarity based on heritability
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In monkeys wernicke's area is
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Used in discriminating calls from other monkeys from their own
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In monkeys broca's area allows
Definition
Control of similar vocal tract organs
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