Loss of language ability as a consequence of brain damage, which may result from head injury or stroke.
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B
The ability of an individual or the members of a community to use two languages effectively
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C
The time after which language can not be acquired
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D
Difficulty with reading processes as a result of brain damage or developmental disorder.
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E
Technique for measuring brain activity that measures electrical activity (event-related potential) on the scalp.
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F
A grammatical word such as a determiner (the, a, some, this), preposition (in, on, from, to), complementiser
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G
Finding that the boundaries between phonetic categories are affected by lexical status.
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H
Fact that each half of the brain has special responsibility for particular cognitive and motor tasks.
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I
The Idea that words are incorporated into the developing sentence structure one by one, as soon as they are received.
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J
Sentence type made up of nonsense content words and real function words and with a grammatically correct structure.
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K
Speech disorder caused by damage to the brain, resulting in fluent but often nonsensical speech.
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L
is a hypothetical tool in the human brain that lets children learn and understand language quickly
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M
The ability of an individual speaker or a community of speakers to communicate effectively in three or more languages
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N
Study of brain structures, often to discover which parts of the brain are responsible for particular tasks, e.g. language processing.
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O
a situation in which the meaning of a term is manifested by pointing out examples.
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P
Study of the mental representations and processes involved in language use, including the production, comprehension and storage of spoken and written language.
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Q
the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language
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R
Phenomenon that most people hear speech better with their right ears. Linked to hemispherical specialisation for language.
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S
Mistake made while speaking, and which can be revealing about the processes and representations used during language productio
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T
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U
Model of sentence processing which claims that when an ambiguous sentence is encountered, the various possible analyses are involved in a race, with the winner being the analysis that is built fastest.
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V
Type of hesitation where the speaker utters words which do not form part of the message.
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W
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X
Dictionary in our head, consisting of representations for the forms and contents of words.
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Y
Developmental impairment where a person speaks fluently and grammatically, but shows poor performance in tasks testing general intelligence
