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Name the cranial nerves important for language
Trigeminal - V
-Innervates speech production muscles
-Flattening and tensing velum and tongue reaction
Facial - VII
-Facial expression
-Lip closure
Vestibulocochlear - VIII
-Sounds sensitivity: information from internal ear to nervous
system
-Sensitivity to changes in equilibrium (balance) semicircular
canals
Glossopharyngeal - IX
, -Functions related to tongue and pharynx
-Sensory information relative to swallowing
Vagus - X
-innervation muscles velum
-innervation of intrinsic laryngeal muscles
-sensory information from larynx
Spinal accessory - XI
-body posture
Hypoglossal - XII
-innervates intrinsic and extrinsic muscles of tongue
The cranial nerves have a role in ________, __________, and
________ ___________
speech, language, hearing processes
Name the three components of language and each of their
subcomponents
Form - structure
-syntax
-morphology