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GRE Psychology: Language
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Answer 26 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Group of words when put together function as a syntactic part of a sentence (e.g. 'walking the dog')
Phrase
Holophrastic speech
Girls (language learning)
Semantic differential charts
2. Generalizing names for things - often done through chaining characteristics rather than logic (e.g. any furry thing is a 'doggie')
Phrase
Girls (language learning)
Overextension
Telegraphic speech
3. Overapplication of grammar rules (e.g. 'I founded my toy' or plural vs. non plural)
Grammar
Telegraphic speech
Overregularization
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
4. Gender that learns faster and more accurately in language
Girls (language learning)
Telegraphic speech
Morphemes
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
5. Language development begins with onset of active speech rather than during the first year of only listening
Language acquisition device (LAD)
Morphemes
Katherine Nelson
Charles Osgood
6. Processed in same brain regions as producing and understanding speech - but slight differences suggested by alexia and agraphia while having no speech problems - In other word - people who are unable to read (alexia) or write (agraphia) have no probl
Reading and writing (language learning)
Overregularization
Phonemes
Overextension
7. Discrete sounds that make up words but have no meaning (e.g. ee - p - sh); phonics is learning to read by sounding out phonemes
Language acquisition milestones
Benjamin Whorf
Bilingual children (language learning)
Phonemes
8. Semantics (word meanings) - semantic differential charts
Language acquisition device (LAD)
Charles Osgood
Holophrastic speech
Morphology/ morphological rules
9. (Researcher) Charles Osgood - Allow people to plot meanings of words on graphs - people with similar backgrounds and interests plotted words similarly - indicating words have similar connotations for cultures/subcultures
Semantic differential charts
Overregularization
Syntax
William Labov
10. Young children using one word (holophrases) to convey a whole sentence (e.g. 'me' for 'give that to me')
Overregularization
Syntax
Reading and writing (language learning)
Holophrastic speech
11. Arrangement of words into sentences as prescribed by a particular language
Roger Brown
Syntax
Language acquisition device (LAD)
First phrases spoken (language learning)
12. Psycholinguistics; transformational grammar; language acquisition device (LAD)
Girls (language learning)
Noam Chomsky
Phonemes
Charles Osgood
13. Social - developmental - linguistic psychology found children'S understanding of grammar rules develops as they make hypotheses about how syntax works and then self-correct with experience
Phrase
Language acquisition milestones
Roger Brown
First phrases spoken (language learning)
14. Grammar rules' how to group morphemes
Phrase
Reading and writing (language learning)
Semantic differential charts
Morphology/ morphological rules
15. Made of phonemes - smallest units of meaning in language - words or parts of words (e.g. boy - -ing)
Roger Brown
First phrases spoken (language learning)
Bilingual children (language learning)
Morphemes
16. Chomsky - differentiates between surface structure (way words are organized; 3 different sentences) and deep structure (what it means; could mean the same thing) - Surface structure: the way that words are organized - Deep structure: underlying meani
Overregularization
Roger Brown
Semantic differential charts
Transformational grammar
17. Russian psychologists - - development of word meanings are complex and altered by interpersonal experience (communicating with significant people in their lives to learn cultural habits); - also - language is a tool in developing abstract thinking (n
Transformational grammar
Morphology/ morphological rules
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
First phrases spoken (language learning)
18. 'Black' English - Ebonics - has its own complex internal structure - not simply bad English
Morphemes
Charles Osgood
Language acquisition device (LAD)
William Labov
19. 1 year speaks first word(s) - 2 years > 50 spoken words - usually 2 then 3-word phrases - 3 years 1000-word vocabulary but has grammatical errors 4 years grammar errors are random exceptions
Language acquisition milestones
Syntax
Prosody
Transformational grammar
20. Whorfian hypothesis; from studying Hopi - language or how a culture says things influences perspective - used for argument for non-sexist language; however cultures that don'T have certain colors can still recognize them - so unclear the extent langu
Grammar
Reading and writing (language learning)
Bilingual children (language learning)
Benjamin Whorf
21. These children learn language slower
Language acquisition milestones
Syntax
Bilingual children (language learning)
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
22. Chomsky - Human have innate ability to learn language (to adopt generative grammar rules of the language they hear); - children made small errors based on grammar rules rather than large structural errors; - seems they only need exposure to a langua
Grammar
Language acquisition device (LAD)
Benjamin Whorf
Katherine Nelson
23. Tone inflections - accents - and other aspects of pronunciation that carry meaning
Prosody
Girls (language learning)
Reading and writing (language learning)
Bilingual children (language learning)
24. Children use nouns first then verbs - usually one noun and one verb (e.g. 'me want') or two nouns (e.g. 'mommy shirt')
First phrases spoken (language learning)
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
Morphemes
Holophrastic speech
25. Speech without articles or extras like a telegram (e.g. 'Me go')
Syntax
Morphology/ morphological rules
Phrase
Telegraphic speech
26. Overall rules of relationship between morphemes and syntax for a certain language
Noam Chomsky
Grammar
Holophrastic speech
Phonemes