Language, acquisition and production Flashcards
What are the properties of language?
Communication
Arbitrarily symbolic
Regularly constructed
multiple levels
What are the two fundamental aspects of language?
Decoding and comprehension
Encoding and production of language.
What are the units that language consist of?
Phoneme
Morpheme
Lexicon
Syntax
What’s a Phoneme?
The smallest unit of speech sound.
What’s a Morpheme?
the smallest unit of meaning
What’s a lexicon?
the set of morphemes in a language.
What’s a syntax?
Putting words together to from sentences.
Who claimed we are all born talkers?
Levelt - thought infants seem to be programmed to tune into their linguistic environment.
Stages of language production
2 Months - Cooing, largely using vowel sounds
6 Months - Babbling, using both consonants and vowels
1-3 years - One word utterances, two word utterances and telegraphic speech
3-4 years - Simple sentences, understanding of syntax and errors of over-regularisation.
4 years - Basic adult sentence structure vocab continues to increase
What are speech errors?
They are slips of the tongue/sound errors/morpheme errors and word errors.
What is spreading activation?
semantic nodes spread their activation to word nodes and then to phoneme nodes.
What’s aphasia?
an impairment in language functioning caused by brain damage.
Describe Broca’s aphasia
struggle with the production of grammatical speech.
Describe Wernicke’s aphasia.
Difficulties in understanding speech and confused language production.
