language

Question 1

________ is a systematic means of communicating information by the use of conventionalized sounds, gestures, marks, or signals having understood meanings

Answer 1

language

Question 2

What is the function of human language?

Answer 2

to influence people’s behaviour by changing what they know, thinkg, believe, or desire.

Question 3

What is the problem with language?

Answer 3

How to efficiently and expressively communicate information

Question 4

What is the importance of language?

Answer 4

It is the basis for society and allows us to interact with each other in a way that goes beyond our immediate surroundings

Question 5

The power of language lies in the seemingly conflicting needs for it to be _________ and yet ____________.

Answer 5

shared between people

capable of expressing novel ideas.

Question 6

_______ are the smallest unit of percieved speech

Answer 6

Phoenemes

Question 7

there are ___ - ___ phonemes per langues, _____ in english

Answer 7

10-150

44

Question 8

________ are the smallests units that signals meaning

Answer 8

morphemes

Question 9

______ are combinations of _______

Answer 9

morphemes

phonemes

Question 10

______ are the smallest stand-alone units of meaning

Answer 10

words

Question 11

_____ include prefixes, suffixes, roots, or entire words.

Answer 11

morphemes

Question 12

_____ are combinations of one or more ______

Answer 12

words

morphemes

Question 13

_____ are organized grouping of one or more words

Answer 13

phrases

Question 14

_____ are sets of words/phrases that (n principle) tell a complete thought

Answer 14

sentences

Question 15

______ believed that we combine words in novel ways to express novel ideas

Answer 15

Noam Chomsky

Question 16

________ refers to rules for language structure, including morphology; rules for combining morphemes into words, and syntax; rules for combining words into phrases into sentences

Answer 16

Grammar

Question 17

_______ refers to how meaning is derived from morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences

Answer 17

semantics

Question 18

________ refers to how each word is assigned a role

Answer 18

phrase structure

Question 19

_________ rules specify what orders and combinations each word’s role can occur in

Answer 19

generative grammar

Question 20

________ refers to phrase structure that applies to the order in which words are actually spoken in.

Answer 20

surface structure

Question 21

_______ refers to fundamentally, underlying phrase structure that conveys meaning

Answer 21

deep structure

Question 22

________ refers to rules that transform among surface structure having some deep structure

Answer 22

transformational grammar

Question 23

______refers to examples of language with multiple interpretations

Answer 23

ambiguity

Question 24

like illusions for perception, ______ can provide insight into cognitive processing of language

Answer 24

ambiguity

Question 25

______ refers to when the same words can be grouped together into more than one phrase

Answer 25

syntactic ambiguity

Question 26

what are phones?

Answer 26

actual sounds

Question 27

what are phonemes?

Answer 27

perceived sounds

Question 28

In categorical speech perception, _________ are heard as same _______

Answer 28

multiple phones

phonemes

Question 29

the _____________ refers to categorical speech perception in 6 month old infants

Answer 29

perceptual magnet effect

Question 30

what are the challenges in lerning words?

Answer 30

• detecting words in stream of speech
• figuring out rules for combining morphemes to make words
• figuring out what words mean