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1
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What is language?

A

a system that relates sounds (or gestures) to meaning

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What are the four components of language?

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  • symbolism
  • structured & meaningful
  • displacement
  • generativity
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What are the four components of language?

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  • symbolism
  • structured & meaningful
  • displacement
  • generativity
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3
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phonemes

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the smallest unit of sound

/p/ and /b/

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phoneme

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the smallest unit of sound

/p/ and /b/

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5
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morpheme

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the smallest unit of meaning

prefixes, suffixes, roots

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6
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syntax

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rules for word combinations

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7
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Stage of Language Development:
0 months

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crying

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Stage of Language Development:
1 month

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cooing

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9
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Stage of Language Development:
6 months

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babbling

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10
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Stage of Language Development:
1 year

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patterned speech

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11
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Stage of Language Development:
18 months

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naming explosion

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12
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Stage of Language Development:
2 years

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combining words

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13
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When do infants start to say their first words?

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10-15 months

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14
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behaviorist theory of language development

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we learn language through reinforcement

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15
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nativist theory of language development

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children are born with innate mental structures that guide their acquisition of language

16
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What aspects of language support the nativist theory?

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  • linguistic universals
  • children apply rules of grammar to novel words
  • language is learned more easily in the critical period
  • animals don’t learn language as successfully as humans
17
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intersectionalist theory of language development

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innate capacity for language interacts with experience

“Motherese”

18
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What is the critical period?

A

as you get older, it becomes harder to learn a new language

19
Q

What happened to Genie?

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suffered extreme child abuse and was forbidden to speak –> never fully developed language skills

20
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categorical speech perception

A

the phenomenon of perceiving speech sounds as two distinct categories instead of on a continuum

21
Q

True or False:
We think of /ba/ and /da/ as two distinct sounds.

A

True

22
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Voice Onset Time (VOT)

A

interval between articulatory release and onset of voicing

23
Q

As VOT ____, /ba/ sound becomes closer to ____

A

increases, /pa/

24
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True or False:
Japanese infants who do not have exposure to the English /r/ and English /l/ can hear these sounds.

A

False
The role of experience is important here. Japanese infants can only hear the Japanese /r/

25
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What is the phenomenon of perceptual narrowing?

A

As an infant gets older, their language abilities become more speciailized based on exposure

26
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True or False:
A 1 year-old can differentiate between English and Salish.

A

False
After 6-8 months, a child’s language abilities become too specialized for their native language.

27
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What is a benefit of perceptual narrowing?

A

infants who are faster to tune into speech sounds of their native language are likely to have larger vocabularies by age 2

28
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What happened in the conditioned head turn response study?

A

infants were conditioned to detect a sound change in language due to their head turning reflex

29
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

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language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about

30
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strong version of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

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thoughts and behavior are determined by language

31
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weak version of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

A

thoughts and behavior are influenced by language

32
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What happened in the masculine & feminine language study?

A

German speakers came up with more masculine adjectives for “key”
Spanish speakers came up with more feminine adjectives for “key”

33
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What happened in the Russian blues experiment?

A

Russian speakers were faster to color-match in cross categories than within-categories
No difference with English speakers

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