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GRE Psychology: Language

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






2. (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






3. Semantics (word meanings) - semantic differential charts






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






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






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






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






8. These children learn language slower






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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






15. Gender that learns faster and more accurately in language






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






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






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. Grammar rules' how to group morphemes






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






24. 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






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






26. 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