AP Psychology Cognition- Language Flashcards

7891179397	Intentional sounds generated by infants and pre-toddlers that lack specific meaning; practice in creating specific sounds is	Babbling	0
7891195006	That humans have an innate capacity for acquiring language reflects the ___________ theory of language aquisition	Nativist	1
7891214065	Research generally supports the notion that the younger a person leans another language, the more proficient the he/she becomes. Thie reason for this includes	Greater plasticity	2
7891242892	In a recent article, I read the following phrase: "Include Your Children When Baking Cookies" which shows how even though syntax can be correct, meaning is influenced by	Context	3
7891248668	Chomsky believed that our ability to quickly learn language is natural and due to	An innate function of the brain	4
7891259027	I need to be aware and careful about what I say around my granddaughters; that is, use appropriate words and good grammar. This is because of a ________ theory of language development	Behavioral	5
7891268446	One-word utterances which convey meaning. For example, the word "food" might be used to mean "Give me food" and the word "up" could convey "Pick me up".	Holophase	6
7891279197	A foreign visitor to the United States asked a taxi driver, "Can you please a ride to the airport me give?" This visitor, apparently, has not yet mastered the _________ of the English language	Syntax	7
7891287479	Knowledge that we have and that we know that other people have, and nonverbal expressions such as fcial expressions, postures, gestures,a dn tone of vioce, are all examples of:	Contextual information	8
7891295764	Suffixes and prefixes are examples of	Morphemes	9
7901617635	When, for example, and orly learner forms the past tense for "run" as "runned" instead of "ran" and for "goose" as "gooses" instead of "geese"	Overgeneralization	10
7901648574	The theory of language acquisition which focuses upon how language influences the way we think	Linguistic relativity hypothesis	11
7901664791	A _________ is the smallest unit of sound that makes a meaningful difference in a language	Phoneme	12
7901672249	Language production is located in __________ area while language comprehension is located in ____________ area	Broca's: Wernicke's	13
7901686401	Syntax refers to the:	Orderly arrangement of words into grammatically correct sentences	14
7901701912	Words do not posses fixed meanings but change their interpretation as a function of the context in which they are spoken. This refers to	Contextual information	15
7901711471	A ___________ is a string of one or more ___________ that makes up the smallest units of meaning in a language	Morpheme: phoneme	16
7901726573	The following is a holophrase a typical two-year old would say:	"Dada"	17
7901732851	About how many phonemes are there in the English language	45	18
7901750103	There must be at least some truth to the idea that language is learned from experiece rather that just being born with it because	Children learn the language that they hear spoken around them rather than some other language	19
7901769964	How many phonemes does the word "lot" have	3	20
7901781662	The English language requires that each sentence have a noun and a verb, each of which may be modified by adjectives and adverbs. This refers to:	Syntax	21
7901793521	Noam Chomsky argues that human brains contain a language acquisition module that includes a universal grammar that underlines all human language	Nativist theory	22
7901831088	By the time children are 2 years old, they have a vocabulary of several hundred words, and by kindergarten their vocabularies have increased to several thousand words. By fifth grade most children know about ____________ words	50,000	23