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