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    University of Garmian

    College of Education
    Department of English

    Language and the Brain


    Presented by:
    Zainab Hashim Majeed
    :Neurolinguistics
    The study of the
    relationship between
    language and the
    .brain
    :Parts of the Brain
    Broca’s area: involved in the
    .production of speech
    Wernicke’s area: involved in the
    .understanding of speech
    Motor cortex and arcuate
    fasciculus: it controls the
    articulatory muscles of the face,
    jaw, tongue and larynx; and
    connects Wernicke’s and
    .Broca’s areas
    Localization view:
    concludes that specific
    aspects of language
    ability can be accorded
    specific locations in the
    .brain
    The tip of the tongue
    :phenomenon (malapropism)
    Knowing the word but facing
    .difficulties in pronouncing it

    For example: saying the word


    medication when trying to say
    .meditation
    :Slip of the tongue (spoonerism)
    It is a nerve random that may result
    from slip of the brain as it tries to
    .organize linguistic messages

    For example when William Spooner, a


    clergyman at oxford university told his
    absent student : you have hissed all my
    .mystery lectures
    :Slip of the ear
    It proves some clues to how the
    brain tries to make sense of the
    .auditory signal it receives

    For example hearing the phrase


    .great ape instead of grey tape
    :Aphasia
    Is a type of language disorder. It is 
    an impairment of language
    function due to localized brain
    damage that leads to difficulty in
    understanding and/or producing
    .linguistic forms
    :Kinds of aphasia
    Broca‘s aphasia: a reduce in the amount of
    speech, distorted articulation and slow, often
    .effortful, speech
    Wernicke's aphasia: it results difficulties in
    auditory comprehension. The patient can
    produce very fluent speech which is difficult
    .to make sense of
    Conduction aphasia: patients sometimes
    mispronounce words but typically do not
    .have articulation problems
    :Dichotic listening
    An experimental technique
    that has demonstrated a left
    hemisphere dominance for
    syllable and word
    .processing
    :Right ear advantage
    The sound that comes via the right ear is
    identifiable fast because it immediately
    goes to the left hemisphere, the center
    of language, at contrast to the sound
    that comes from the left ear that would
    go to the right hemisphere which then
    will be transferred to the left
    .hemisphere
    :The critical period
    The period, during childhood, when the
    human brain is most ready to receive
    input and learn a particular language.
    It lasts from birth till puberty. If a child
    does not acquire language during this
    period, he will find it almost impossible
    .to learn language later on
    :References
     The study of language; by George Yule.
     Language and Linguistics; by John Lyons.

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