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