AP Psych Mod 35 Flashcards

6004814995	Language	Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.	0
6004814996	Phoneme	In a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.	1
6004814997	Morpheme	In a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix).	2
6004814998	Grammar	A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others.	3
6004814999	Semantics	The set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds.	4
6004815000	Syntax	The set of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences.	5
6004815001	3 building blocks for language:	1- Phonemes 2- Morphemes 3- Grammar	6
6004815002	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.	7
6004815003	One-word stage	The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words.	8
6004815004	Two-word stage	Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in two-word statements.	9
6004815005	Telegraphic speech	Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram-"go car"- using mostly nouns and verbs.	10
6004815006	Aphasia	Impairment of language, usually caused by left-hemisphere damage either to Broc's area.	11
6004815007	Broc's area	Impairing speaking and controls language expression.	12
6004815008	Wernicke's area	Impairing understanding and controls language reception.	13
6004815009	Linguistic determinism	Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.	14
6004815010	4 months	Infants babble, making sounds found in languages from all over the world.	15
6004815011	10 months	Their babbling contains only the sounds found in their household language.	16
6004815012	12 months	Children begin to speak in single words.	17
6004815013	Noam Chomsky	Proposed that all human languages share a universal grammar.	18