Language And Thought Flashcards
What is productivity
The creation of new messages, humans can connect unrelated information to form new ideas or messages
What develops prenatal to provide a strong foundation for children in language development when they are born
The sensory system and basic auditory recognition
Who Tenas to out perform males on tasks of comprehension and sentence complexity
2-7 year old females
What is the difference between tonal languages and intonation languages
Tonal languages rely on changes in pitch to alter a words meaning, intonational languages do not do that
What is grammar and what is syntax
Grammar refers to the systematic rules of a language, syntax is part of grammar and is the order of words (structure of a sentence)
What are children able to do before 3 months of age
Make happy baby sounds that don’t mimic morphemes
If someone sized with b.f skinner on how language is believe developed, what would they
That environmental influences dictate language development
Those siding with Chomsky on how language is learnt, what would they believe
That a persons biology dictates their language development
Skinner defined speech as _____ ______ and applied theories of________ ________ to chidrens language acquisition
Verbal behavior, operant conditioning
What is the language acquisition device (lad)
A mechanism in the brain responsible for the faculty of language, it hasn’t been found
What is nativism
The belief that certain abilities are built into our brain (biological)
What is the “critical period”
The stage in development where it’s necessary for children to receive environmental stimulation in order to promote healthy development
What is the sensitive period in language development
A terminology that indicates that the neurological system is more malleable during early development, but is still modifiable later in life with the proper environmental stimulation
What is an emergentist perspective
They believe language is a combination between inherited biology, environmental factors, and social pressures
