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Specific Language Impairment:
Problems with language, but other intelligence is fine |
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Williams Syndrome
Dumb but language is pretty good |
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| individual speech sounds? |
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| category of speech sounds in which phones are contrastive |
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| smallest unit of language |
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| expresses a complete though (subject + predicate) |
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| what we say about the subject |
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| what drives lateralization of language? |
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| experience! spanish/english kid study |
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| Arguments for the biological basis of language |
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1) language is species specific (only we have it)
2) language is universal and shares qualities
3) language develops spontaneously (kids learn to speak without directed structure)
4) Triggered by the environment (like how vision is depended on seeing things) |
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| what connects the two hemispheres? |
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| what is it when left controls right and right controls left? |
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| operation where corpus callosum severed |
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| Event Related Potential - changes in the electrical patterns of the brain that are associated with the processing of various kinds of linguistic stimuli |
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patent had great difficulties with words (missing articles and inflections)
*telegraph speech or agrammatic |
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| language impairment from a brain lesion |
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| fluent speech characterized by fluent strings |
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| word finding difficulties |
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Degree of forieghn accent:
age of arrival makes a difference
length of time in the US did not correlate |
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looked at korean and chinese peoples and their understanding of grammar
-scores dramatically reduced with age of arrival |
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| Why does this happen critical period hypothesis |
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1. loss of neuroplsisity
2. cognitive immaturity is advantagous (not thinking why why )
3. LAD - use it or loose it |
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