AP Psychology: Language Flashcards

6716319817	Aphasia	Impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's Area or to Wernicke's Area.	0
6716322564	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 language.	1
6716326581	Broca's Area	Controls language expression - an area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere, that directs muscle movements in speech.	2
6716331219	Grammar	In a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate and understand others.	3
6716333624	Linguistic Determinism	Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.	4
6716335277	Morpheme	In a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word.	5
6716337646	One Word Stage	The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words	6
6716344031	Overgeneralization	the process of extending the application of a rule to items that are excluded from it in the language norm, as when a child uses the regular past tense verb ending -ed of forms like I walked to produce forms like I goed or I rided.	7
6716346690	Phoneme	In language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.	8
6716348851	Semantics	The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language.	9
6716351128	Syntax	The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.	10
6716361672	Telegraphic Speech	Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram - "go car" - using mostly nouns and verbs.	11
6716369541	Two Word Stage	Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two word statements.	12
6716373784	Universal Adaptability	In linguistics, the point when an infant can distinguish sounds from any language and reproduce them.	13
6716381770	Universal Grammar	the theory of the genetic component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky.	14
6716393533	Wernicke's Area	Controls Language Reception - a brain area involved in language comprehension and expression.	15