ap psych language Flashcards

9042657035	language	our spoken, written, or gestured works and the way we combine them into communicating meaning	0
9042662433	phoneme	in a spoken language, the smallest distinctive sound unit (Germans have trouble with "th" sound, to them sounds like "dis")	1
9042690422	morpheme	in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning ("pre" in previewing or "ing" in calling)	2
9042708967	grammar	system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others	3
9042713070	semantics	set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language (adding "ed" to laugh means past)	4
9042722517	syntax	the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language (white house, not house white)	5
9042737660	whorfian hypothesis (linguistic determinism)	a cultures language shapes members thinking (more important something is to a culture, the more words exist to describe it)	6
9042749759	babbling stage	3-4 months, stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language	7
9042810321	one word stage	1-2, stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in single words	8
9042816862	two word stage	2, child speaks in mostly 2 word statements	9
9042821342	telegraphic speech	early speech stage in which the child speaks like a telegram	10