Examples of dead language in the following topics:
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- Human language is recursive.
- Human language has displacement.
- Speaking is the auditory form of language, but writing
and sign language are visual forms.
- A language family is a group of
languages descended from a common language.
- For example, Latin, which was spoken in the Roman Empire, is now
considered a dead language, or a language that has no native speakers.
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- Humans, especially children, have an amazing capability to learn language, and several theories exist to explain language development.
- Noam Chomsky's work discusses the biological basis for language and claims that children have innate abilities to learn language.
- He has observed that all children make the same type of language errors, regardless of the language they are taught.
- Jean Piaget's theory of language development suggests that children use both assimilation and accommodation to learn language.
- In language acquisition, there is a hypothesis that a "critical period," or a time when it is optimal to learn a language, exists in children.
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- Without the brain, there would be no language.
- The human brain has a few areas that are specific to language processing and production.
- Patients with Broca's can often still understand language, but they cannot
speak fluently.
- This diagram shows the areas of the brain associated with languages.
- The areas of the brain necessary for language.
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- Language and thought tend to influence one another in a dual, cyclical relationship.
- It is easy to wonder which comes first, the thought or the language.
- Can thought exist without language?
- For example, different words mean different things in different languages; not every word in every language has a one-to-one exact translation in a different language.
- Beck, this school of thought discusses the interplay among emotion, behavior, language, and thought.
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- Language is the ability to produce and comprehend spoken and written words; linguistics is the study of language.
- Language is the ability to produce and comprehend both spoken
and written (and in the case of sign language, signed) words.
- Complex language is one of the defining factors that makes
us human.
- While every language has a
different set of rules, all languages do obey rules.
- Every human language has a lexicon—the sum
total of all of the words in that language.
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- All languages have underlying structural rules that make meaningful communication possible.
- Every language is different.
- Every language has a different set of syntactic rules, but all languages have
some form of syntax.
- Context includes tone
of voice, body language, and the words being used.
- ASL and other sign languages have all the same structural underpinnings that spoken languages do.
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- Animal language is any form of communication that shows similarities to human language; however, there are significant differences.
- Human language is also the only kind that is modality-independent; that is, it can be used across multiple channels.
- Verbal language is auditory, but other forms of language—writing and sign language (visual), Braille (tactile)—are possible in more complex human language systems.
- Koko is famous for having learned over a thousand signs of "Gorilla Sign Language," a simple sign language developed to try to teach nonhuman primates complex language.
- Kanzi is a bonobo, whose trainers claim that not only can he understand human language, but he can manipulate human language to create sentences.
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- Cognitive psychology examines internal mental processes such as problem-solving, memory, and language.
- Cognitive psychology is the school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language.
- Major areas of research in cognitive psychology include perception, memory, categorization, knowledge representation, numerical cognition, language, and thinking.
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- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by limitations in language and social skills.
- Language difficulties related to ASD will sometimes make it hard for the child to interact with teachers and peers or themselves in the classroom.
- This includes difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, processing speed, auditory short-term memory, and/or language skills or verbal comprehension.
- In addition to the disabilities listed above, IDEA covers deaf-blindness, deafness, developmental delays, hearing impairments, emotional disturbance, orthopedic or other health impairment, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury, and visual impairment (including blindness).
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- The left hemisphere appears to dominate the functions of speech, language processing and comprehension, and logical reasoning, while the right is more dominant in spatial tasks like vision-independent object recognition (such as identifying an object by touch or another nonvisual sense).
- It processes sensory input including auditory information, language comprehension, and naming.
- Several portions of the parietal lobe are important to language and visuospatial processing; the left parietal lobe is involved in symbolic functions in language and mathematics, while the right parietal lobe is specialized to process images and interpretation of maps (i.e., spatial relationships).