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PSY 449 - Language

Terms in this set (19)

Aphasia
deficit in language production or comprehension
Anomia
Difficulty retrieving words
Dysarthia
Difficulty controlling muscles used in speech
Aparaxia
Impairment of motor planning & speech articulation
Wernicke's Aphasia
Problems with speech comprehension
Conduction Aphasia
Patients show intact comprehension without the ability to repair errors
Phonology
Speech sounds and their mental representations.
Orthography
Visual representation of words
Morphology
words and word structure
Semantics
word and sentence meaning
Syntax
sentence structure
Coarticulation
no silences between words
Nonspeech sounds
noises or tones
Speech sounds
real words, pseudowords, reversed speech
Sound processing
primary auditory cortex
Speech processing
superior temporal sulcus (STS)
Word Processing
left middle gyrus, inferior temporal gyrus, angular gyrus, and temporal pole
Word forms
details of how they are spelled and what their sound pattern is
Syntactic information
rules for using the words
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