College 5 Flashcards
What is the definition of a word?
a conventional form-meaning pairing where a fixed form represents the same meaning in different context
What are 2 fundamental features of language?
Arbitrariness and iconicity
Which 2 types of fixed forms are there?
phonemes and morphemes
What is a phoneme?
The smalles sound unit that can change the meaning of a word but has nog lexical meaning itself
What is a morpheme?
A bundle of sounds related to systematic meaning
What is syntactic bootstrapping?
using the syntactic properties of words to identify and narrow down the aspects of meaning that words likely convey
What enhances language learning?
social context, joint attention
What are cues to language
language specific characteristics and the relationship between the environment and language
What do babies store in their lexical representations?
only necessary phonetic detail
What level categroies are there?
basic, superordinate and subordinate
What is basic level category
dog
what is superordinate level category?
animal
What is subordinate level category?
dalmatian
How many participants has a intransitive verb?
one
how many participants has a transitive verb?
two