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AP Psychology - Language and Cognition Flashcards

Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)

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9181306947languageour spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.0
9181306948phonemein language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.1
9181306949morphemein a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix).2
9181306950grammarin a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others.3
9181306951semanticsthe set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning.4
9181306952syntaxthe rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.5
9181306953babbling stagebabies spontaneously uttering a variety of words, such as ah-goo6
9181306954one-word stagethe stage in which children speak mainly in single words7
9181306955two-word stagethey start uttering two word sentences8
9181306956telegraphic speechearly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram—"go car"—using mostly nouns and verbs.9
9181306957linguistic determinismWhorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.10

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