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