by The Open University
Available in 19 free installments
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By the end of this unit you should be able to:
recognise definitions and applications of each of the terms printed in bold in the text;
understand and apply basic grammatical terminology;
describe briefly the different types of sounds used in speech in both acoustic and articulatory terms;
outline the key features of human language as compared to the vocalisations of other species;
describe the complex psychological processes involved in decoding even simple sentences of spoken language;
describe briefly how auditory information is converted into brain activity by the human ear;
describe different types of language impairment caused by brain damage, and relate these to the way language is processed in the intact brain;
explain the different sources of evidence used by researchers in trying to understand how language is processed in the brain;
describe the probable stages in the decoding of a sentence of spoken language in the cortex of the brain.
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