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8560532765Broca's Area-Controls language expression -Allows for the muscle movements involved in speech -Speaking0
8560534279Wernicke's Area-Controls language reception -Involved in comprehension and expression -Understanding1
8560539488Aphasia-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 language2
8560541329LanguageOur spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning3
8560590808PhonemesThe smallest distinctive sound unit in language -Phones carry sounds, the Phonemes4
8560599474MorphemesThe smallest unit that carries meaning- Can be part of a word -Morphemes have meaning- they both start with M5
8560612906GrammarThe system of rules in language that allows us to communicate with and understand each other6
8560623155SemanticsIs the set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds7
8560630145SyntaxIs the set of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences8
8560645371Descriptive GrammarThis 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 English9
8560647362Perspective GrammarThis is considered the authority of rules for grammar10
8560673184Semantic NetworksThis is a series of semantic relationships between concepts11
8560681200Language AcquisitionWe use about 150 words for half of what we say, but you have learned about 60,000 words from your first birthday until graduation12
8560699288What 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 language13
8560719758The Cooing Stage-This is the earliest stage in language development -Infants in this stage will be able to make simple vowel sounds14
8560732541The 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 language15
8560744318Receptive LanguageThis is the ability to understand what is said to and about them16
8560766298The Critical/Sensitive Period TheoryBasically, the first few years of life are seen as the best and easiest time to acquire a language17
8560782644Holophrastic or One-Word Stage-This occurs around the age of 1 or about 2 -In this stage, a child will speak mostly in single words18
8560799834Two Word Stage-At around 2, children begin to use telegraphic speech and speak mostly in two-word statements19
8560808336Telegraphic Speechearly speech were a child speaks like a telegram, using mostly nouns and verbs20
8560817624OverregularizationThis is when a child attempts to make language more regular than it is21

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