Myers for AP: LANGUAGE - Bard Flashcards

Thinking Problem Solving Creativity and Language

5499559503	Language	spoken, written or signed words, and the ways we use them to communicate.	0
5499559504	Phoneme	(linguistics) the smallest distinctive unit of sound	1
5499559505	Morpheme	smallest meaningful language unit	2
5499559506	Grammar	a system of linguistic rules that enables communication	3
5499559507	Semantics	the study of language meaning	4
5499559508	Syntax	the rules for grammatical arrangement of words in sentences	5
5499559509	Babbling Stage	beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household lanuage.	6
5499559510	One-word Stage	the stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words	7
5499559511	Two-word stage	beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements	8
5499559512	Telegraphic speech	early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words	9
5499559513	Linguistic determinism	Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think	10
5499559514	Noam Chomsky	American linguist whose theory of generative grammar argued that language and grammar are innate, that we have a language acquisition device built in.	11
5499559515	B.F Skinner	pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments	12
5499559516	Benjamin Whorf	Linguist who theorized the concept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought	13