Lang Psych 1
These are the three majorest regions of the brain.
What is brain steam, cerebellum, and cerebrum?
This term refers to the brain's ability to control its own cognitive processing.
What is executive function?
This theory suggests there is a limited period in childhood for us to develop Language.
What is the critical period hypothesis?
This term describes our tendency to automatically classify the speech sound we hear into the distinct categories of speech sounds.
What is categorical perception?
This Suns basketball player outscored the entire Clippers team by himself in quarter 3 of Game 5 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals.
Who is Devin Booker?
This region of the brain is the physically largest, and is where language occurs.
What is the cerebrum?
These are the four lobes of the brain.
What is frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital?
This term refers to the impact of an organism’s genetics on its characteristics and fate.
What is 'nature'?
This term refers to the process of hearing and understanding speech.
What is speech perception?
This field is the study of how computers and language interact.
What is computational linguistics?
This term refers to the tendency for some cognitive processes or functions to be specialized to a specific region within the brain.
What is localization?
This bundle of nerves connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
This term refers to the impact of an organism’s environment on its characteristics.
What is 'nurture'?
This term refers to technology that translates from one language to another.
What is machine translation?
This term refers to a electronic database of language data.
What is a corpus?
The faculty of our mind that monitors what we are saying for mistakes.
What is the affective filter?
Language is lateralized to this part of the brain in 90% of right-handed people and 50% of left-handed people.
What is the left hemisphere?
This term refers to the tendency for some cognitive processes to be specialized to one hemisphere of the brain or the other.
What is lateralization?
This term describes technology that attempts to use and understand human language.
What is speech language technology?
This term describes technology that "understands" human language.
What is automatic speech recognition?
This region of the brain is associated closely with language production.
What is Broca's area?
A person's ability to hear, remember, and imitate sounds they hear from another dialect or language.
What is phonological memory?
This term refers to our conscious awareness of language as an object.
What is metalinguistic awareness?
A system which converts normal language text into speech.
What is text-to-speech (TTS)?
These are three challenges most commonly associated with machine translation.
What are . . .
1. Non-literal language like idioms2. Ambiguous words and sentences
3. Structural differences between languages
Wernicke's area is in this lobe of the brain.
What is the temporal lobe?
This term refers to when features of one language affect the learning or use of another.
What is language transfer?
Broca's area is in this lobe of the brain.
What is the frontal lobe?
This book was written, so the story goes, on the eve of Napoleon's destruction of the Holy Roman Empire and at the beginning of the 'German Wars of Liberation'. The book itself is no less dramatic or revolutionary. It is Hegel's grandest experiment, changing our vision of the world and the very nature of the philosophical enterprise.
What is Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit?
This term describes technology that "produces" human language.
What is speech synthesis?