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