8560532765 | Broca's Area | -Controls language expression -Allows for the muscle movements involved in speech -Speaking | 0 | |
8560534279 | Wernicke's Area | -Controls language reception -Involved in comprehension and expression -Understanding | 1 | |
8560539488 | Aphasia | -This refers to an impairment of language -Receptive (Wernicke's) Aphasia occurs when someone is unable to understand language -Expressive Aphasia occurs when someone is unable to produce language | 2 | |
8560541329 | Language | Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning | 3 | |
8560590808 | Phonemes | The smallest distinctive sound unit in language -Phones carry sounds, the Phonemes | 4 | |
8560599474 | Morphemes | The smallest unit that carries meaning- Can be part of a word -Morphemes have meaning- they both start with M | 5 | |
8560612906 | Grammar | The system of rules in language that allows us to communicate with and understand each other | 6 | |
8560623155 | Semantics | Is the set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds | 7 | |
8560630145 | Syntax | Is the set of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences | 8 | |
8560645371 | Descriptive Grammar | This is the structure of grammar as it is actually used by people -This means some phrases can be grammatically correct in a community, even if they aren't by the standards of written English | 9 | |
8560647362 | Perspective Grammar | This is considered the authority of rules for grammar | 10 | |
8560673184 | Semantic Networks | This is a series of semantic relationships between concepts | 11 | |
8560681200 | Language Acquisition | We use about 150 words for half of what we say, but you have learned about 60,000 words from your first birthday until graduation | 12 | |
8560699288 | What would the behaviorists say? | -B.F. Skinner would use Operant Conditioning to explain how we learn language -Albert Bandura would use Social Learning Theory to explain how we learn language | 13 | |
8560719758 | The Cooing Stage | -This is the earliest stage in language development -Infants in this stage will be able to make simple vowel sounds | 14 | |
8560732541 | The Babbling Stage | -4 months babies can recognize differences in speech sounds and read lips -7 months babies begin to segment spoken sounds into individual words -10 months babies will babble in their household language | 15 | |
8560744318 | Receptive Language | This is the ability to understand what is said to and about them | 16 | |
8560766298 | The Critical/Sensitive Period Theory | Basically, the first few years of life are seen as the best and easiest time to acquire a language | 17 | |
8560782644 | Holophrastic or One-Word Stage | -This occurs around the age of 1 or about 2 -In this stage, a child will speak mostly in single words | 18 | |
8560799834 | Two Word Stage | -At around 2, children begin to use telegraphic speech and speak mostly in two-word statements | 19 | |
8560808336 | Telegraphic Speech | early speech were a child speaks like a telegram, using mostly nouns and verbs | 20 | |
8560817624 | Overregularization | This is when a child attempts to make language more regular than it is | 21 |
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