Athabasca - Chapter 8 - Study Questions Flashcards
Phonology
Sound system of a language and the rules for combining these sounds to produce meaningful units of speech
Semantics
Expressed meaning of words and sentences
Syntax
Structure of a language; the rules specifying how words and grammatical markers are to be combined to produce meaningful sentences
Pragmatics
Principles that underlie the effective and appropriate use of language in social contexts
Language acquisition device
Chomsky’s term for the innate knowledge of grammar that humans are said to possess, which might enable young children to infer rules governing others’ speech and to use these rules to produce language
Broca’s area
Structure located in the frontal lobe of the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex that controls language production
Wernicke’s area
Structure located in the temporal lobe of the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex that is responsible for interpreting speech
Receptive vocabulary
That which the individual comprehends when listening to others’ speech
Expanding
Responding to a child’s ungrammatical utterance with a grammatically improved form of that statement
Child-directed speech
Short, simple, high-pitched (and often repetitive) sentences that adults use when talking with young children
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chemes
Scheme
organized pattern of thought or action constructed to interpret experience
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carobs’ raae
broca’s area
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keeriwcn’s aaer
wernicke’s area
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cjobet merpcennae
object permanence
the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived
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bginblab
babbling
strings of consonant-vowel combinations
