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GRE Psychology: Language
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1. 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
Roger Brown
Phrase
Transformational grammar
Benjamin Whorf
2. Overapplication of grammar rules (e.g. 'I founded my toy' or plural vs. non plural)
Language acquisition device (LAD)
Language acquisition milestones
Overregularization
Phonemes
3. 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)
Overextension
Charles Osgood
Noam Chomsky
4. Overall rules of relationship between morphemes and syntax for a certain language
Grammar
Overextension
Semantic differential charts
Transformational grammar
5. Arrangement of words into sentences as prescribed by a particular language
Benjamin Whorf
Overregularization
Syntax
Charles Osgood
6. These children learn language slower
Semantic differential charts
Bilingual children (language learning)
Katherine Nelson
Girls (language learning)
7. (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
Syntax
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
Semantic differential charts
Phrase
8. Language development begins with onset of active speech rather than during the first year of only listening
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
Phrase
Katherine Nelson
Bilingual children (language learning)
9. Speech without articles or extras like a telegram (e.g. 'Me go')
Grammar
Overextension
Katherine Nelson
Telegraphic speech
10. Grammar rules' how to group morphemes
Language acquisition device (LAD)
Benjamin Whorf
Morphology/ morphological rules
Charles Osgood
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
Roger Brown
Semantic differential charts
First phrases spoken (language learning)
12. Generalizing names for things - often done through chaining characteristics rather than logic (e.g. any furry thing is a 'doggie')
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
Phonemes
Telegraphic speech
Overextension
13. Young children using one word (holophrases) to convey a whole sentence (e.g. 'me' for 'give that to me')
Holophrastic speech
Language acquisition milestones
Girls (language learning)
Telegraphic speech
14. 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
Overregularization
Reading and writing (language learning)
Grammar
Benjamin Whorf
15. Gender that learns faster and more accurately in language
Girls (language learning)
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
Reading and writing (language learning)
Syntax
16. Semantics (word meanings) - semantic differential charts
Benjamin Whorf
Charles Osgood
Girls (language learning)
Bilingual children (language learning)
17. Tone inflections - accents - and other aspects of pronunciation that carry meaning
Language acquisition milestones
Katherine Nelson
Prosody
Overregularization
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
Reading and writing (language learning)
Holophrastic speech
Phonemes
Grammar
19. 'Black' English - Ebonics - has its own complex internal structure - not simply bad English
William Labov
Semantic differential charts
Language acquisition device (LAD)
Charles Osgood
20. Group of words when put together function as a syntactic part of a sentence (e.g. 'walking the dog')
Semantic differential charts
Katherine Nelson
Phrase
Grammar
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
Language acquisition milestones
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria
First phrases spoken (language learning)
Language acquisition device (LAD)
22. Made of phonemes - smallest units of meaning in language - words or parts of words (e.g. boy - -ing)
Phrase
Noam Chomsky
Morphemes
Syntax
23. Psycholinguistics; transformational grammar; language acquisition device (LAD)
Telegraphic speech
Roger Brown
Benjamin Whorf
Noam Chomsky
24. 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
Telegraphic speech
Phrase
Transformational grammar
Morphemes
25. 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
Language acquisition milestones
Girls (language learning)
First phrases spoken (language learning)
Noam Chomsky
26. 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
Overextension
Noam Chomsky
Katherine Nelson
Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria