I thought the readings were very interesting and informative, mainly because I have no knowledge of the anatomy of the brain. I especially thought it was interesting that if you are right-hand dominant, then the left-hemisphere of your brain is the leading hemisphere for languages. I also thought the part about the tongue slip was also fascinating because I do it so often. I would tend to speak before I even think about what is coming out of my mouth, leading to mistakes and words that I did not mean to say.
In the reading, it mentions that the Broca and the Wernicke's area is responsible for the production and comprehension of speech. The Broca area is in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere while the Wernicke's area is located on the temporal lobe on the left side of the brain.
Because I have experience learning a language at home and in the classroom setting, I would say that I conceptualize meaning through feeling. Every language has a word for a feeling that another language might not have. Therefore, it is hard to recognize a word if you do not have another word to compare it to in another language. That is why I think having a feeling or a sense of what it is suppose to mean is significant.
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Hi Sarah- Am I perhaps missing Journal #2? On your index of blog posts, it jumps from #1-#3. Just checking to make sure I didn't miss it.