Exam 1

Question 1

Humans interact with each other as speech

Answer 1

the physical motor movement of language

Question 2

Humans interact with Language

Answer 2

the words the rules, syntax and symantics

Question 3

Humans interact with Communication

Answer 3

embodies both of these things along with conveying information without using langage or speech

Question 4

paralinguistic communication

Answer 4

things within language that give you clues to a person’s meaning
ex. tone, exclamation

Question 5

non linguistic communication

Answer 5

conveying a meaning without language

Question 6

What is the speech chain?

Answer 6

the actual mechanism of speech broken down into its part

Question 7

grammar

Answer 7

the rules of language that are different for every language

Question 8

descriptive grammar

Answer 8

what speakers of a language actually do

Question 9

prescriptive grammar

Answer 9

what you would learn from a language textbook.

Question 10

free morphemes

Answer 10

free ones are the ones that can stand alone

Question 11

bound morphemes

Answer 11

bound ones are the morphemes that can’t stand alone

Question 12

syntax

Answer 12

how to combine phrases and sentences legally

Question 13

affixes

Answer 13

attach to the root and addd/ modify meaning

Question 14

root

Answer 14

words are the smallest unit that can mean something in a word

Question 15

content morphemes

Answer 15

carry meaning

Question 16

function morphemes

Answer 16

are used to provide grammatical information and syntactical agreement

Question 17

simple sentences

Answer 17

contain one subject and one predicate

Question 18

compound sentences

Answer 18

contain at least two senteces joined by a conjuction

Question 19

complex sentences

Answer 19

contain a simple and at least one dependent clause

Question 20

semantics

Answer 20

study of meaning or content in language

Question 21

lexicon

Answer 21

our inventory of words

Question 22

pragmatics

Answer 22

language use and function in society

Question 23

discourse

Answer 23

storytelling

Question 24

universal feature of language

Answer 24

creativity – combining simple meaning into complex utterances

Question 25

cell body

Answer 25

maintenance, processing

Question 26

axon

Answer 26

trasmits impulses away from cell body to go to other neurons muscles and glands

Question 27

dendrites

Answer 27

recieves impulses from other cells; transmits to cell body

Question 28

synapse

Answer 28

a cell can accept synaptic inputs from many other cells

Question 29

Central Nervous System

Answer 29

mass of nerve cells and fibers that coordinate and direct a large part of voluntary activity

Question 30

Peripheral nervous system

Answer 30

bundles of nerve fibers that link to all portions of body to CNS - -includes voluntary and involuntary parts (autonomic nervous system) - all parts that aren't brain and spinal

Question 31

afferent nerves

Answer 31

transmit information to CNS from other body parts

Question 32

efferent nerves

Answer 32

transmit information from CNS to body

Question 33

What is the structure that separates the two halfves of the brain

Answer 33

longitudinal fissure

Question 34

what is the structure that links the two halves

Answer 34

corpus callosum

Question 35

Do the two halves of the brain have the same function

Answer 35

no they have a contralateral relationship and there's cerebral dominance

Question 36

What's Broca's area

Answer 36

motor out put

Question 37

broca's area language functions

Answer 37

production is nonfluent, effortful, syntactic deficits

Question 38

wernicke's area

Answer 38

they don't understand so they just start babbling

Question 39

wernicke's are language functions

Answer 39

production is fluent, but not always meaningful

Question 40

the structure that connects broca and wernickes

Answer 40

arcuate facitis

Question 41

damage to the facitis

Answer 41

can't repeat heard speech

Question 42

cerebral commusurotomy

Answer 42

when you take the two halves of the brain and split them | used to treat epilepsy pretty successful

Question 43

temporal resolution

Answer 43

what is the time scale at which we observe the activity

Question 44

spatial resolution

Answer 44

how large is the area in the brain at which we observe the activity