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GRE Psychology: Language
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Answer 26 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Telegraphic speech
Language acquisition milestones
Phrase
Reading and writing (language learning)
2. (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
Phrase
Telegraphic speech
Semantic differential charts
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
3. Made of phonemes - smallest units of meaning in language - words or parts of words (e.g. boy - -ing)
Overregularization
Noam Chomsky
Phonemes
Morphemes
4. Language development begins with onset of active speech rather than during the first year of only listening
Telegraphic speech
Katherine Nelson
Semantic differential charts
Roger Brown
5. Children use nouns first then verbs - usually one noun and one verb (e.g. 'me want') or two nouns (e.g. 'mommy shirt')
Language acquisition device (LAD)
First phrases spoken (language learning)
Telegraphic speech
Reading and writing (language learning)
6. Arrangement of words into sentences as prescribed by a particular language
Syntax
Katherine Nelson
Morphology/ morphological rules
William Labov
7. 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 milestones
Charles Osgood
Transformational grammar
Language acquisition device (LAD)
8. 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
Syntax
Morphemes
Prosody
9. Generalizing names for things - often done through chaining characteristics rather than logic (e.g. any furry thing is a 'doggie')
Overextension
Telegraphic speech
Phonemes
Girls (language learning)
10. These children learn language slower
Phonemes
William Labov
Syntax
Bilingual children (language learning)
11. Overall rules of relationship between morphemes and syntax for a certain language
Holophrastic speech
Language acquisition device (LAD)
Grammar
Morphemes
12. Overapplication of grammar rules (e.g. 'I founded my toy' or plural vs. non plural)
Overregularization
Telegraphic speech
Grammar
Semantic differential charts
13. Grammar rules' how to group morphemes
Grammar
First phrases spoken (language learning)
Morphology/ morphological rules
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
14. 'Black' English - Ebonics - has its own complex internal structure - not simply bad English
William Labov
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
Language acquisition device (LAD)
First phrases spoken (language learning)
15. Group of words when put together function as a syntactic part of a sentence (e.g. 'walking the dog')
Holophrastic speech
Language acquisition device (LAD)
Phrase
Roger Brown
16. 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
Roger Brown
Benjamin Whorf
Bilingual children (language learning)
17. Speech without articles or extras like a telegram (e.g. 'Me go')
Katherine Nelson
William Labov
Telegraphic speech
Morphemes
18. 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
Semantic differential charts
Morphemes
Language acquisition device (LAD)
19. Discrete sounds that make up words but have no meaning (e.g. ee - p - sh); phonics is learning to read by sounding out phonemes
Benjamin Whorf
Phrase
Phonemes
Overregularization
20. Semantics (word meanings) - semantic differential charts
Grammar
Noam Chomsky
Charles Osgood
Language acquisition milestones
21. Young children using one word (holophrases) to convey a whole sentence (e.g. 'me' for 'give that to me')
Reading and writing (language learning)
Telegraphic speech
Holophrastic speech
Morphemes
22. 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
Phonemes
Overregularization
Charles Osgood
Roger Brown
23. 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
Morphology/ morphological rules
William Labov
Overregularization
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
24. Tone inflections - accents - and other aspects of pronunciation that carry meaning
Roger Brown
Prosody
Holophrastic speech
Reading and writing (language learning)
25. Gender that learns faster and more accurately in language
Reading and writing (language learning)
Transformational grammar
Overextension
Girls (language learning)
26. Psycholinguistics; transformational grammar; language acquisition device (LAD)
Prosody
Noam Chomsky
Telegraphic speech
Grammar