Linguistics

1. Linguistics Week 7 Chapter 2 and 3

2. Lesson Outline • Chapter Two “Brain and Language” • What is Neurolinguistics? • The Human Brain. • What is Aphasia? • The Critical Age Hypothesis. • 2. Chapter Three “Morphology” • What is Morphology? • What is Lexicon? And What does the mental lexicon include? • Dictionaries • Content Words and Function Words. And the differences between them. • Morphemes. • Bound and Free Morphemes. • Rules of Word Formation; Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes. • Sin Language Morphology. • Word Coinage; Eponyms, Back Formation, Compounds, Blends, Clipping, Acronyms

3. When you say a word that you read, the information about the word travels from your primary visual cortex to Wernicke’s area, which recognizes the word’s meaning, to Broca’sarea, which is involved in formulating spoken language, to the primary motor cortex, which enables the movement of muscles to let you say the word aloud.

5. Online References • Brain and language • http://www.dana.org/news/brainhealth/detail.aspx?id=10038 • Morphology and the analysis of word forms • http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~ling354/morphology.html#Morphological_rules • Dictionary of English Affixes • http://affixes.lianafiggess.com/product_verbs.php • Morphemes • http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/caneng/morpheme.htm • Eponyms • http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/eponyms.htm