Chapter 1 Part 3

Question 1

Language that focuses on the immediate context

Answer 1

Contextualized

Question 2

Has little reliance on context; don’t need context in the immediate environment that is needed to communicate

Answer 2

Decontextualized

Question 3

What are the 5 domains of language?

Answer 3

Phonology, morphology, pragmatics, semantics, syntax

Question 4

Rules of a language governing the sounds that makes syllables and words

Answer 4

Phonology

Question 5

General American English has ___ phonemes

Answer 5

39

Question 6

The rules of language governing the internal organization of words; allows use to expand vocabulary exponentially by using a small core of words and to add specificity to language

Answer 6

Morphology

Question 7

What are some examples of grammatical morphemes?

Answer 7

Plural -s, possessive ‘s, past tense -ed, etc.

Question 8

Governs the internal organization of sentences; rules we use to create a sentence

Answer 8

Syntax

Question 9

Governs the meaning of individual words and word combinations; allows us to know the meanings of words, how many meanings a word may have, whether meanings are literal or figurative

Answer 9

Semantics

Question 10

Our vocabulary system

Answer 10

Lexicon

Question 11

Governs the language use for social purposes; using language for different functions or intentions, organizing language for discourse, knowing what to say and when and how to say it

Answer 11

Pragmatics

Question 12

What is a synonym for social communication?

Answer 12

Pragmatics

Question 13

What domains of language are part of form?

Answer 13

Morphology, phonology, syntax

Question 14

What domains of language are part of use?

Answer 14

Pragmatics

Question 15

What domains of language are part of content?

Answer 15

Semantics

Question 16

A clinician is asking a child to verbally label using a single words to determine if they know the object/concept. What domain of language is this?

Answer 16

Semantics

Question 17

A teacher is teaching the students to turn verbs into present progressive -ing verb forms. What domain of language is this?

Answer 17

Morphology

Question 18

A child’s goal reads “will correctly ask ‘wh’ questions”. What domain of language is this?

Answer 18

Pragmatics

Question 19

At what age do children begin to understand and use several words?

Answer 19

1 year

Question 20

At what age do children have a vocabulary of several hundred words and can combine them into short sentences?

Answer 20

2 years

Question 21

Suggests that all persons around the world apply the same cognitive infrastructure to learning language; the way children learn language and the time frames for milestones are relatively invariant across the globe

Answer 21

Universality

Question 22

Complexity of human language far exceeds even the most sophisticated non-human primates

Answer 22

Species specificity

Question 23

Allows people to represent events that are decontextualized to share what happened before this moment or that may happen in the future; allows people to represent the world to others

Answer 23

Semanticity/displacement

Question 24

Principle of combination; that a small number of discrete units can be combined into seemingly infinite creations; you can produce a sentence no one has ever uttered

Answer 24

Productivity

Question 25

Variability among language users

Answer 25

Language differences

Question 26

Natural variations of a language that evolve within specific cultural or geographic boundaries

Answer 26

Dialect

Question 27

What are some language differences (4)?

Answer 27

Dialect, bilingualism, gender, language learning environment

Question 28

____ out of _____ of the US population speak a different language/dialect

Answer 28

1 out of 5

Question 29

Why might children have word differences based on class of families?

Answer 29

Parents may work all the time so children are not exposed to many words, amount of time that children are with parents, more interaction with siblings, technology

Question 30

True or false: Children who acquire less words, based on socio-economic status, are considered those who have language disorders

Answer 30

False; have language differences