Camellia Café by Camellia

• Love to read?
• Like to tell stories?
• Write poetry?
• Enjoy learning foreign languages?
• Have a good vocabulary?

• Have a good memory for names or facts?
• Play word scrambles, hidden word puzzles, Scrabble, or crossword puzzles?
• Read about ideas that interest you?
• Have fun playing with puns, tongues twisters, and rhymes?

Your are Word Smart!

speech generation —— talk
speech comprehension —— hear
writing generation —— write
writing comprehension —— read

speech generation
Speech production is process by which a thought in the brain is converted into an understandable auditory form. This is a multistage mechanism that involves many different areas of the brain. The first stage is planning, where the brain constructs words and sentences that turn the thought into an understandable form. This occurs primarily in the inferior frontal cortex, specifically in an area known as Broca's area. Next, the brain must plan how to physically create the sounds necessary for speech by linking the planned speech with known sounds, or phonemes. While the location of these associations is not known, it is known that the supplementary motor areaplays a key role in this step. Finally, the brain must signal for the words to actually be spoken. This is carried out by the premotor cortex and the motor cortex.
In most cases, speech production is controlled by the left hemisphere. However, it has been discovered that in cases of neural stress the right hemisphere has the ability to take control of speech functions.
speech comprehension
The Superior Temporal Sulcus activates when hearing human speech. Speech processing seems to occur within Wernicke’s Area.
When speaking, the person can hear their speech, and the brain uses what it hears as a Feedback mechanism to fix speech errors. If a single feedback correction occurs multiple times, the brain will begin to incorporate the correction to all future speech, making it a Feedforward mechanism.
writing generation
Generation of written language is thought to be closely related to speech generation, relying on Broca's area for early processing and on the inferior frontal gyrus for semantic processing. However, writing differs in two major ways. First, instead of relating the thought to sounds, the brain must relate the thought to symbols or letters, and second, the motor cortex activates a different set of muscles to write, than when speaking.
writing comprehension
Written comprehension, similar to spoken comprehension, seems to occur primarily in Wernicke's area. However, instead of using the auditory system to gain language input, written comprehension relies on the visual system.

Children and AI Machines

SPEAK
SPEACH is a fundamental part of being Word Smart.
READ
The ability to READ opens up all kinds of doors into the world of knowledge and imagination.
WRITE
The more you read, the more you may want to WRITE to tell your own stories and express your own thoughts.

FUTURE with Word Smart skills

what we can do if we are Word Smart：

• Advertising Writer
• Advocate
• Lawyer

• Archivist
• Editor
• English Teacher
• Grant Writer
• Indexer
• Information Scientist
• Journalist
• Librarian
• Lobbyist
• Museum Curator
• Paralegal
• Poet
• Politician
• Speaker
• Proofreader
• Public Relations Specialist
• Announcer
• Researcher
• Screenwriter
• Speech Pathologist
• Speechwriter
• Storyteller
• Translator
• Web Editor
• Writer

When kids grow up

As technology continues to advance, a linguistics degree traditionally prepares students are finding their skills in high demand from an unlikely place-positions in artificial intelligence.