Language

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an organised means of combining words in order to communicate with those around us:

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language

Question 2

exchange of thoughts and feelings:

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communication

Question 3

the psychology of our language as it interacts with the human mind:

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psycholinguistics

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What is language?

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communicative, arbitrarily symbolic, regularly structured, structured at multiple levels, generative/productive, dynamic (CARDS G)

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language permits us to communicate with one or more people who share our language:

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communicative

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Language creates an arbitrary relationship between a symbol and what it represents: an idea, a process, a relationship, or a description:

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arbitrarily symbolic

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Language has a structure, only particularly patterned arrangement of symbols have meaning, and different arrangements yield different meanings:

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regularly structured

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The structure of language can be analysed at more than on level (eg. sounds, meaning units, words and phrases)

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structured at multiple levels

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Within the limits of a linguistics structure, language users can produce novel utterances. The possibilities for creating new utterances are virtually limitless:

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generative and productive

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languages can constantly evolve:

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dynamic

Question 11

The thing or concept in the real world that a word refers to is called a?

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referant

Question 12

the smallest unit of speech sound that can be used to distinguish one utterance in a given language from another:

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phoneme (a,i,s,f)

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the smallest unit of meaning within a particular language:

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morpheme

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the words that convey the bulk of the meaning of a language:

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content morphemes

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add detail and nuance to the meaning of the content morphemes or help the content morphemes fit the grammatical context:

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function morphemes

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The way in which we put words together to form sentences:

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syntax

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The study of meaning in a language:

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semantics

Question 18

Pronouncing more than one sound at the same time:

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coarticulation

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One or more phonemes begin while other phonemes are still being produced:

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coarticulation

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Integrating what we know with what we hear when we perceive speech (the _eel was on the ____):

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phonemic-restoration effect

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Discontinuous categories of speech sounds:

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categorical perception

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the strict dictionary definition of a word:

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denotation

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A word’s emotional overtones, presuppositions, and other non explicit meanings:

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connotation

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The systematic way in which words can be combined and sequenced to make meaningful phrases and sentences:

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syntax

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the study of language in terms of noticing regular patterns. These patterns relate to the functions and relationships of words in a sentence:

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grammar

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Analyses the structure of phrases as they are used:

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phrase-structure grammar

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Transformational rules that guide the way in which an underlain proposition can be arranged into a sentence:

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transformational grammar

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An underlying syntactical structure that links various phrase structures through various transformation rules.

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deep structure

Question 29

Any of the various phrase structures that my result from deep structure transformations:

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surface structure

Question 30

Ways in which items can be used in the context of communication:

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Thematic roles

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Difficulty in deciphering, reading, and comprehending text:

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dyslexia

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The identification of a word that allows us to gain access to the meaning of the word from memory:

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lexical access

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What is used to identify letters and words?

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lexical processes

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What activates relevant information in memory about certain words?

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lexical processes

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Used to make sense of the text as a while

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comprehension processes

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letters are read more easily when they are embedded in words than when they are presented either run isolation or with letters that do not form words:

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word-superiority effect

Question 37

The speed with which we can retrieve information about words (e.g., letter names) stored in our long-term memories:

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lexical-acces speed

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Involves units of language larger than individual sentences - in conversations, lectures, stories, essays and even textbooks:

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discourse

Question 39

the process by which we translate sensory information (the written words we see) into a meaningful representation:

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semantic encoding