Organization/location of language

Question 1

Infant’s task in speech organization

Answer 1

1. Segmentation
   Breaking speech into meaningful units
2. Phonology
   Learning sound inventories and rules for putting sound together (phonological system)
3. Words
   Finding words (cut-off) and discovering the reference
4. Syntax/morphology
   Learning linguistic categories (eg nouns/verbs)
5. Semantics & pragmatics
   Inferring the intended meaning of an utterance

Question 2

Language areas

Answer 2

Mostly in left hemisphere;
Broca’s = before in the frontal lobe

Wernicke’s = behind in temporal lobe

Question 3

Modality

Answer 3

Activation in brain areas is similar in sign language. Language lateralisation is primarily independent of modality