Language Flashcards
Symbols
From sounds to sentences
What’s the differences between phonemes and morphemes
The smallest distinctive sound vs the smallest distinctive sound that carries meaning
When a noise may overlap a person’s speech yet you perceive the speech as complete and unaffected
Phemonic restoration
Grammar
A set of rules for combining the symbols with a language
Grammar includes
Syntax and semantics
True or False: Surface structure of language may have more than one deep structure
True
When do children step into the babbling stage
3-4 months
When does a child’s babbling reveal household language
10 months
When do children step into the one word stage
12 months
When do children increase their vocabulary
18 months
Fast mapping
After one exposure, children will map an underlying concept
Over extension
A child incorrectly uses a word to describe a wider set of objects or actions than is meant to
Under extension
A child incorrectly uses a word to describe a narrow set of objects or actions than is meant to
When does a child extend language to two word sentences
< 24 months
When does a child extend language to complete sentences
> 24 months
When grammar rules are over generalized irregular cases where they do not apply
Over regularizations
Mean length of Utterance (MLU)
The average length of children’s spoken statements
MLU is measured in
Morphemes
Metalinguistic awareness
Children begin to reflect on the use of their language
Skinner believed
Behavior that is reinforced is more likely to be repeated
How do genes play a role in language
Designs the mechanism for language and experience modifies
Navisit theory of language is
We are born with the hardware but grow up with the software
A culture’s language shapes member’s thinking
Whorfian Hypothesis or linguistic relativity hypothesis
Language includes
Symbols and grammar
