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GRE Psychology: Language
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1. Gender that learns faster and more accurately in language
Prosody
Girls (language learning)
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
Syntax
2. Arrangement of words into sentences as prescribed by a particular language
Language acquisition milestones
Grammar
Syntax
Roger Brown
3. 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
Noam Chomsky
Girls (language learning)
Roger Brown
Transformational grammar
4. Children use nouns first then verbs - usually one noun and one verb (e.g. 'me want') or two nouns (e.g. 'mommy shirt')
Morphology/ morphological rules
Roger Brown
Grammar
First phrases spoken (language learning)
5. Generalizing names for things - often done through chaining characteristics rather than logic (e.g. any furry thing is a 'doggie')
Overextension
Language acquisition milestones
Prosody
Girls (language learning)
6. Psycholinguistics; transformational grammar; language acquisition device (LAD)
Noam Chomsky
Morphemes
Syntax
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
7. Grammar rules' how to group morphemes
Morphology/ morphological rules
Semantic differential charts
Language acquisition milestones
William Labov
8. 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)
Morphology/ morphological rules
Phrase
Telegraphic speech
9. 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
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
Phrase
Overextension
Language acquisition device (LAD)
10. 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
Transformational grammar
William Labov
Prosody
Grammar
11. 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 device (LAD)
Noam Chomsky
Bilingual children (language learning)
Phonemes
12. 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
Phrase
Holophrastic speech
Prosody
13. Tone inflections - accents - and other aspects of pronunciation that carry meaning
Prosody
Phrase
Semantic differential charts
First phrases spoken (language learning)
14. Overall rules of relationship between morphemes and syntax for a certain language
Phrase
Telegraphic speech
Grammar
Transformational grammar
15. 'Black' English - Ebonics - has its own complex internal structure - not simply bad English
Charles Osgood
William Labov
Grammar
Overextension
16. Made of phonemes - smallest units of meaning in language - words or parts of words (e.g. boy - -ing)
Overregularization
Reading and writing (language learning)
Morphemes
Phonemes
17. Semantics (word meanings) - semantic differential charts
Charles Osgood
Grammar
Prosody
Girls (language learning)
18. Young children using one word (holophrases) to convey a whole sentence (e.g. 'me' for 'give that to me')
Benjamin Whorf
Holophrastic speech
Transformational grammar
Semantic differential charts
19. Overapplication of grammar rules (e.g. 'I founded my toy' or plural vs. non plural)
William Labov
Overregularization
Transformational grammar
Girls (language learning)
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
Telegraphic speech
Benjamin Whorf
William Labov
Charles Osgood
21. Group of words when put together function as a syntactic part of a sentence (e.g. 'walking the dog')
First phrases spoken (language learning)
Roger Brown
Phrase
Language acquisition milestones
22. (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
Holophrastic speech
Phrase
Phonemes
Semantic differential charts
23. These children learn language slower
William Labov
Bilingual children (language learning)
Language acquisition milestones
Semantic differential charts
24. 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
Language acquisition device (LAD)
Katherine Nelson
Prosody
Semantic differential charts
25. Speech without articles or extras like a telegram (e.g. 'Me go')
Syntax
Grammar
Semantic differential charts
Telegraphic speech
26. Language development begins with onset of active speech rather than during the first year of only listening
Prosody
Katherine Nelson
Charles Osgood
Girls (language learning)