When I took a psychology class we touched on the various areas and parts of the brains and how they connected to various mental and physical tasks. We touched briefly on how they brain learned and processed language, and of course touched on the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Broca's area, and Wernicke's area. I don't think I realized at the time how many different areas of the brain were involved in language, though. I also found it interesting to learn about these different aspects of language and then how they apply to learning and speaking foreign languages.
I found the section on slips of the tongue very interesting. I know I make then often enough, and I found it interesting to think about how they might happen in other languages. It is intriguing to think about how the slips we make in English may never be made in a different language, because the the similarities between words and phrases would be different, thereby affecting the sounds, syllables, words, and units of grammar differently.
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