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GRE Psychology: Language

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1. Psycholinguistics; transformational grammar; language acquisition device (LAD)






2. Generalizing names for things - often done through chaining characteristics rather than logic (e.g. any furry thing is a 'doggie')






3. 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






4. Grammar rules' how to group morphemes






5. Overall rules of relationship between morphemes and syntax for a certain language






6. Overapplication of grammar rules (e.g. 'I founded my toy' or plural vs. non plural)






7. Arrangement of words into sentences as prescribed by a particular language






8. Tone inflections - accents - and other aspects of pronunciation that carry meaning






9. Language development begins with onset of active speech rather than during the first year of only listening






10. 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






11. Children use nouns first then verbs - usually one noun and one verb (e.g. 'me want') or two nouns (e.g. 'mommy shirt')






12. Group of words when put together function as a syntactic part of a sentence (e.g. 'walking the dog')






13. Young children using one word (holophrases) to convey a whole sentence (e.g. 'me' for 'give that to me')






14. Semantics (word meanings) - semantic differential charts






15. 'Black' English - Ebonics - has its own complex internal structure - not simply bad English






16. Speech without articles or extras like a telegram (e.g. 'Me go')






17. 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






18. Discrete sounds that make up words but have no meaning (e.g. ee - p - sh); phonics is learning to read by sounding out phonemes






19. 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






20. Made of phonemes - smallest units of meaning in language - words or parts of words (e.g. boy - -ing)






21. 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






22. (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






23. 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






24. 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






25. Gender that learns faster and more accurately in language






26. These children learn language slower