Lec. Tuncer Can
"Animals talk to
each other, of course. There can be no question about that; but I suppose there
are very few people who can understand them."
--- Mark Twain, (in What Stumped the Blue-jays)
Brain and Language ( Neurolinguistics)
10 billion nerve cells/ fiber connections/ neurons 30,000 genes
cortex( surface) : memory/ decision making
cerebral hemispheres
corpus collosum
contra lateral brain function: left hemisphere controls the right side of the body and vica-versa
localization : different abilities/ behaviours traceable to specific parts of the brain
Modularity
Assymetri
Aphasia : language disorders, problems of syntactic structures
Broca’s Area( front left part) loss of speech, difficulty in intonation, pronunciation, word finding pauses, funtion words neglected, agrammatic
prevents a person from producing speech /person can understand language/words are not properly formed /speech is slow and slurred.
Wernicke’s Area ( back left part) good pronunciation and intonation but lexical errors
loss of the ability to understand language/person can speak clearly, but the words that are put together make no sense. This way of speaking has been called "word salad" because it appears that the words are all mixed up like the vegetables in a salad
Lateralization : cognitive functions localized to 1 side or the other
Split Brains : “The right brain does beter than the left in pattern matching tasks, in recognizing faces, and in spatial orientation. The left hemisphere is superiour for language, for rhythmic perception, for temporal order judgements, and for mathematical thinking.”
Laura (complex sentences) and Christopher (15 languages) / Morons ( Language Autonomy)
The ability to understand and comprehend what is said to us is a complex psychological process involving the internal grammar, motivation, frequency factors, memory, and both linguistic and nonlinguistic contexts.
“ İyi terbiye ailesi görmüş kişileriz”(form a sit-com)
“ Benim konsantremi bozmayın.” (a girl in the street)
http://www.med.harvard.edu/publications/On_The_Brain/Volume4/Number4/F95Lang.html
http://whyfiles.org/058language/index.html
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/lang.html
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