Lectures 5 & 6

Question 1

Language

Answer 1

Set of arbitrary but conventional symbols which are combined in a rule like way through which meaning is conveyed

Question 2

Features of Language

Answer 2

Arbitrary, Discrete, Structures, Meaningful, Generative, Displaced, Evolves

Question 3

What are the levels of Analysis for langauge

Answer 3

Phonemes, Morphemes, Semantics, Syntax, Discourse, Pragmatics

Question 4

Sign Language is not

Answer 4

An elaborate form of gesturing, does not slow down a deaf child who is learning to speak, a translation of english

Question 5

Sign language does

Answer 5

use the same areas of the brain as speakers (and visual), same acquisition stages, have babbling

Question 6

Broca’s Area Damage

Answer 6

Non-Fluent/Expressive: Will have meaning but will have pauses/studder and no grammar

Question 7

Wernicke’s Area

Answer 7

Fluent/Receptive: Can talk fluently but words have no meaning at all, kind of like babbling with full words

Question 8

Phonemes

Answer 8

Smalles unit of speech sound in language that can signal different meanings

Question 9

Morphemes

Answer 9

Smallest units of meaning in a language

Small words, prefixes, suffixes etc