1. Comprehension. How do people understand spoken and written language? This includes how people process language sounds; how they understand words, sentences, and stories expressed in writing, speech, or sign language; and how people have conversations with one another.
2. Representation. How is language represented in the mind? This includes how people group words together into phrases to create meaningful sentences and how they make connections between different parts of a story.
3. Speech production. How do people produce language? This includes the physical processes of speech production and the mental processes that occur as a person creates speech.
4. Acquisition. How do people learn language? This includes not only how children learn language but also how people learn additional languages, either as children or later in life.
Lexicon = knowledge of what a word means. What contributes to this knowledge is how it sounds, how these words relation to other words – AGE AND EDUCATION contribute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyvyGMkzNQc&ab_channel=WilliamKnapp
Perceiving words in sentences – example of idgit
Segmentation refers to breaking things up
Examples
Biased dominance – the word ball
When words have two or more meanings with different dominance.
Balanced dominance – the word fast
When words have two or more meanings with about the same dominance.
(After the musician played) (the piano was wheeled off of the stage) = correct grouping
[After the musician played the piano] isn’t correct.
We painted the wall with cracks
HOMEWORK – can you go to your textbook to find examples demonstrating how these would play out in reality
Note elements of what is preserved in each time of aphasia
BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THESE WITH EXAMPLES – SEE YOUR TEXT BOOK and TUT MEMO FOR LANGUAGE