Week 1- pre lecture

    Cards (8)

    • Aphasia
      Language disorder effecting ability to communicate, caused by brain damage.
    • generativity
      ability to produce sentences never before said, understand sentences never before heard.
    • Prevarication
      the ability to lie or deceive
    • sound symbolism
      perceptual similarity between speech sounds and concept meanings e.g ding and actual sound of bell
    • Syntax
      Arrangement of words to create well-formed sentences
    • Broca’s area
      brain region concerned with production of speech , left frontal lobe
    • Lexigram
      Symbol representing a word, used in learning language
    • Linguistic determinism
      Language and its structures limit human thought
      e.g. inuit and snow
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