devpsych test 1 Flashcards
Skinner
Behaviorist View
Chomsky
Nativist View
Behaviorist View
Rewards & Exposure
Language lerned through reinforcements/rewards & exposure
Skinner
Nativist View
Innate Mental Tools to Learn Language
children learn language even if its imperfect or incomplete
Universal Grammar, Poverty of the Stimulus, Chomsky
Universal Grammar
Poverty of the Stimulus
children are not exposed to enough stimuli to learn language as well as they do without some innate knowledge or capacity
Unviersal Grammar
Babies born with an innate framework for learning language
Theory by Chomsky
Generativity
children applying rules and creating sentences/ words they’ve never heard before (applying what they’re learning)
EG: sentences that are grammatically correct but dont make sense; wented
phonology
building blocks of language
sounds /b/ or /p/
Lexicon
building blocks of language
Vocabulary
Morphology
building blocks of language
different parts of a word
-ing or prefix/ suffix splits
Syntax
building blocks of a language
word order, grammar
sentence rules
Semantics
building blocks of language
Meaning
Pragmatics
building blocks
Using language in social contexts
what is the context of the language and how its used
Metalinguistics
Thinking about language itself
EG: knowing what’s a pun, knowing whats an idiom and what’s more matter of fact
