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