Cognitive Psychology: Language Flashcards
Components of Language
Phonemes
Morphemes
Semantics
Syntax
Phonemes
Smallest sound units of language
Morphemes
Smallest units of meaning in a language
Semantics
The meaning of the words or sentence
Syntax
The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Learning Theory in Cognitive Development
The idea that language is acquired through classical conditioning, operant conditioning and modeling
Cognitive Developmental Theory
The idea that language continues to develop as the child’s cognitive level does.
Nativist Theory
Developed by Chomsky. He believed that there must be some innate, biologically based mechanism for language acquisition.
Language Acquisition Device
A build-in advanced knowledge of rule structure in language.
Surface Grammatical Structure
A sentence is the actual work order of the words in a sentence.
Deep Grammatical Structure
An underlying form that specifies the meaning of the sentence.
Transformational Rules
A set of rules that define how one sentence can change into another.
Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
The idea that language determines how reality is perceived.
