Athabasca - Chapter 9- 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
The correct answer is: Scheme
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carobs’ raae
broca’s area
language production
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language interpretation
keeriwcn’s aaer
Wernicke’s area
language interpretation
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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
