Module 36

Question 1

language

Answer 1

spoken, written, or signed words & the ways we combine them to make meaning

Question 2

phonemes

Answer 2

the smallest distinctive sound units in a language

Question 3

morphemes

Answer 3

the smallest language units that carry meaning (can be a word/prefix)

Question 4

productive language stage 1 (babbling stage)

Answer 4

around 4 months, infants spontaneuously make sounds (ma-ma, da-da)

Question 5

productive lang stage 2 (one-word stage)

Answer 5

1-2, single words (fish/puppy)

Question 6

productive lang stage 3 (2 word stage)

Answer 6

age 2, 2 word statements (want juice)

Question 7

productive lang stage 3 (telegraphic speech)

Answer 7

child speaks like a telegram, mostly nouns/verbs (go car)

Question 8

aphasia

Answer 8

impairment of language
- caused by either Brocas area (impairing speaking) or Wernickes area (impairing understanding)

Question 9

brocas area -speaking

Answer 9

left frontal lobe, controls language expression/directs muscle movements involved w/speech

Question 10

wernickes area -understanding

Answer 10

left temporal lobe, involved in language comprehension and expression

Question 11

linguistic determinism

Answer 11

language controls the way we think and the world around us
- too extreme because we all have unsymbolized (wordless) thoughts
- made by Whorf

Question 12

linguistic influence

Answer 12

idea that language AFFECTS thought (therefore our thinking/world view is “relative to” our cultural language)
- weaker version of linguistic determinism/relativity