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