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