Language

Question 1

Language Disorder: Aphasia

Answer 1

• disorder that involves language.
• Is a communication disorder that causes problems with language, like speaking, listening reading, and writing.

Question 2

Language Disorder: Broca’s Aphasia

Answer 2

• Damage to the language production centers of the brain.
• Produce broken/halted speech.
• Frontal lobe region damaged.

Question 3

Language Disorder: Wernicke’s Aphasia

Answer 3

• is different pattern of behavior – words they make don’t make any sense.
• They also can’t understand what others say.
• Temporal lobe region damaged.
• Wernicke’s aphasia is characterized by difficulty understanding spoken words and sentences, as well as difficulty producing sentences that make sense.

Question 4

Language Disorder: Global Aphasia

Answer 4

• is a combination of impaired comprehension and production of speech.

Question 5

Language Disorder: Agraphia

Answer 5

• inability to write.

Question 6

Language Disorder: Anomia

Answer 6

• inability to name things.

Question 7

Theory of Language: Piaget

Answer 7

• came up w/ cognitive development in children.
• He believed once children were able to think a certain way, they then developed language to describe those thoughts -> influences build it.
• Language influence is influenced by cognitive development.

Question 8

Theory of Language: Vygotsky

Answer 8

• language and thought are both independent, but converge through development.
• Eventually learn to use them at same time via socialization - Believed children developed language through social interaction with adults who already knew the language.
• Through the interaction, they learnt to connect the thoughts and the language they eventually learn.

Question 9

Theory of Language: Linguistic Determinism

Answer 9

• Language has an influence on thought.
• They are called the Weak and Strong hypothesis – referring to ho much influence they think language has on thought.

Question 10

Language Components: Phonology

Answer 10

• phonetic component, actual sound of a language. “a sound system”

Question 11

Language Components: Morphology

Answer 11

• refers to the structure of words.

Question 12

Language Components: Semantics

Answer 12

• association of meaning with a word.

Question 13

Language Components: Syntax

Answer 13

• how words are put together in sentences.