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1
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What species uses generative language

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Humans

2
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Where is there more cortical folding - left or right hemisphere

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Left

3
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Broca vs Wernicke? What do lesions lead to

A

Broca (frontal lobe) - speech production, Lesions = lose ability to spepak

Wernicke (ftempporal lobe) - comprehension of language
Lesions = fluent speech but inability to use or understand more than the most basic nouns and verbs

4
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Generating words: considering patterns needed to generate words and activate the ___ regions, near ____

A

motor regions near frontal cortex

5
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Alexia (Word blindness) - what is damaged?

A

Symptoms?
Occipital lobe
Symptoms:
-Ability to write a passage but cannot read it
-Ability to recognise individual letters as a letter (N= Letter N, B = Letter B)
-Inability to associate indivudal letters with a sound (N= enn, B = bee)
-Inability to read a word as a whole

6
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Word order (subject, object, verb) is different in different languages - it is superficial and arbitrary
*There is also variety in how fixed or permissive word order is and there are examples of “non-configurational” languages that are context dependent e.g. Warlpiri (Abo language) in NT
A
Word order (subject, object, verb) is different in different languages - it is superficial and arbitrary
*There is also variety in how fixed or permissive word order is and there are examples of “non-configurational” languages that are context dependent e.g. Warlpiri (Abo language) in NT
7
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Word recursion - superficial or fundamnetal

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Fundamental

8
Q

Piraha language - don’t have words for colour (e.g. red or green), rather they talk about an object in the real world (e.g. leaf - which is green). No tense (life concerned with the present), no recursion. Highly adaptable - can convert language from spoken to whistle form.

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Piraha language - don’t have words for colour (e.g. red or green), rather they talk about an object in the real world (e.g. leaf - which is green). No tense (life concerned with the present), no recursion. Highly adaptable - can convert language from spoken to whistle form.

9
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Where is word order learnt

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From where you came from (cultural evolution determines linguistic structure)

10
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Founders effect

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The loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population

11
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There is a correlation between phonetic diversity and distance from central Africa

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-The further away they are from Africa, the less diversity there is

12
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Language gene (although lecturer doesn’t think is is a language gene) affecting speech is called?

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FOXP2 - a DNA binding protein, different in humans and apes but doesn’t explain difference in language

13
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You cannot just attribute a function to just one gene. You have to consider the interactions in the network, other things can be affected as well when FOXP2 is affected. E.g. Neurological defects, strange gait

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You cannot just attribute a function to just one gene. You have to consider the interactions in the network, other things can be affected as well when FOXP2 is affected. E.g. Neurological defects, strange gait