Language

Question 1

What’d Darwin believe about language?

Answer 1

Language is special; every human has a natural tendency to speak.

Question 2

Creolization

Answer 2

People with different languages come together to form a new langauge

Question 3

What would later generations do with creolized languages?

Answer 3

They would make them better with syntax and cohesiveness

Question 4

Syntax

Answer 4

how words are combined to make meaningful and coherent phrases

Question 5

Morphology

Answer 5

most basic meaningful units and how words are composed

Question 6

Phonology

Answer 6

basic units of sound

Question 7

How many phonemes are in the English language?

Answer 7

Around 44

Question 8

What’s cool about listening to sounds in your language vs. languages you don’t know?

Answer 8

You mentally can seperete words.

Question 9

How many words in Oxford Dictionary?

Answer 9

270,000

Question 10

Recursion

Answer 10

Linguistic structures that repeat themselves with implied clauses

Question 11

What did Noam Chomsky believe about acquiring language?

Answer 11

Nativism. All innate where it isn’t much learning, but more growth

Question 12

How does Nativism fail to explain language?

Answer 12

An isolated kid won’t know language. Also, syntax must be learned

Question 13

Brith to 4 months (language acquisition)

Answer 13

Babies prefer the sound of their own language.

Question 14

What can babies do better than adults in language acquisition?

Answer 14

Distinguish phonemes

Question 15

When does the babbling stage begin? What happens with deaf children?

Answer 15

6-7 months

Question 16

12 months (language acquisition)

Answer 16

Some word order and actions/objects

Question 17

When’s telegraphic speech phase?

Answer 17

16-18 months

Question 18

When do people learn function morphemes (in, of, a, etc.)

Answer 18

18 months

Question 19

When does learning language become difficult? What about sign language?

Answer 19

post-puberty. same for sign langauge

Question 20

When’s the critical period for language acquisition?

Answer 20

around 2 to puberty

Question 21

How do humans and animals differ in communication?

Answer 21

Animals have no phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.

Question 22

How were primates at learning and being taught language?

Answer 22

They took very long to even learn a few words

Question 23

Does language change the way you think? What did Darwin think?

Answer 23

Darwin thought maybe langauge is the thing that makes humans able to reason better than animals

Question 24

Do false-belief tests show that language is necessary for theory of mind?

Answer 24

No. 15-month babies can know Sally & Anne

Question 25

How does language affect thinking?

Answer 25

In some complex things that humans do (ex: higher numbers of math needs symbol system)