Exam 10: Language

How can the event-related potential (ERP)technique be applied to language? Describe two ERP components that have been studied in a psycholinguistic context,and give examples of the kinds of stimuli that elicit them.

An early ERP component associated with morphosyntactic violations is the

Segmenting the boundaries between words is a particularly difficult computational problem in

The speech of people with Broca's aphasia is usually slow and effortful and consists of primarily concrete words,while words that serve grammatical functions are omitted.This type of speech output is called

________ is a general term for deficits in language comprehension and production that occur as the result of brain injury.

Recent studies have shown that the lesion associated with persistent severe Wernicke's aphasia may have to include not only Wernicke's area itself,but also

The immediate assignment of syntactic structure of incoming words is known as parsing.

________ is to the meaning of a word as ________ is to the spelling of a word.

Under certain circumstances,when the conceptual representation of an item is activated,there is subsequent difficulty activating the corresponding word form in the mental lexicon,even though other information about the item can be accessed.This phenomenon is called

The information that a listener derives from the speech rhythm and pitch of the speaker's voice is referred to as morphological.

What is the difference between Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia? Where are Broca's area and Wernicke's area located in the brain?

The term auditory neighborhood refers to

A normal adult speaker has passive knowledge of about 50,000 words.

The German neurologist Wernicke found that injury to this region of the brain resulted in poor language comprehension and nonsensical but relatively fluent speech.

Which of the following statements represents the LEAST consensus among psycholinguists?

Damasio and colleagues (1996)examined the effects of damage to three brain regions in the inferior temporal lobe: TP,IT,and IT+ (moving anterior to posterior).Which of the following did they find?

The principle of minimal attachment argues that syntactic analysis of a sentence

A person's symptoms include poor spoken and written comprehension but fluent and reasonably grammatical speech output.What is the most probable diagnosis?

A patient's symptoms include poor spoken and written comprehension but fluent and reasonably grammatical speech output.Which part of this person's brain is most likely damaged?

An aphasic person who makes semantic paraphasia errors in her speech might say "________" when she actually intends to say "________."