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