language ap psych Flashcards
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| 8423721818 | psycholinguistics | the study of language | 0 | |
| 8423725784 | language | conveys meaning, but not necessarily sound (sign language) | 1 | |
| 8423736155 | two basic elements of language | grammar and symbols | 2 | |
| 8423736157 | speech | act of speaking and making sounds | 3 | |
| 8423741140 | phonemes | the smallest unit of sound that affects the meaning of speech | 4 | |
| 8423750902 | ~40 phonemes | the number of phonemes in the english alphabet | 5 | |
| 8423753745 | morphemes | the smallest unit of language that has meaning | 6 | |
| 8423761124 | syntax | a set of rules governing the placement of phonemes, morphemes, words, etc | 7 | |
| 8423781746 | semantics | rules governing the meaning of words and sentences | 8 | |
| 8423791192 | surface structure | the order in which words are arranged in sentences only one meaning | 9 | |
| 8423796858 | deep structure | an abstract representation of the underlying meanings of a given sentence multiple meetings | 10 | |
| 8423810663 | Noam Chomsky | social psychologist and philosopher that studies language and the development of language developed universal grammar theory and deep vs. surface structure theory | 11 | |
| 8423837628 | babbling | the first sounds that infants make that resemble speech, occurs during the first year of birth meaningless sounds | 12 | |
| 8423856825 | holophrastic speech | using a single word to express a broader idea or sentence babies use this type of speech after 6 months "play" | 13 | |
| 8423869034 | telegraphic speech | noun-verb "want juice" babies use this speech around 18 months | 14 | |
| 8423884605 | overgeneralization | applying -ed for the past tense (which is generally correct), but they over apply this rule to irregular verbs that they previously used correctly occurs by that end of 2 years | 15 | |
| 8423908783 | universal grammar | a concept made by Chomsky that allows us to identify the basic dimensions of language because we do not entirely learn new languages, we develop it as genetic predispositions interact with experience | 16 | |
| 8424067191 | benjamin whorf and linguistic determinism | language determines how you think.. if you cannot express it in language then you cannot have a thought about it | 17 |