SAFMEDS Unit 1

Question 1

Phonology

Answer 1

Branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages

Question 2

Phoneme

Answer 2

Smallest contrastive linguistic unit which may bring about a change of meaning

Question 3

Semantics

Answer 3

Branch of language concerned with a meaning. Meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text

Question 4

Lexicon

Answer 4

Vocabulary of person, language, or branch of knowledge

Question 5

Syntax

Answer 5

Arrangement of words and phrases to create well - formed sentences

Question 6

Grammar

Answer 6

Study of and set of structural rules that governs the composition of phrases and words

Question 7

Pragmatics

Answer 7

Studies ways that context contributes to meaning

Question 8

Expressive Language

Answer 8

Ability to form thoughts into grammatically accurate words and sentences

Question 9

Receptive Language

Answer 9

Ability to understand/comprehend heard or read language

Question 10

Verbal Behaviour

Answer 10

Functional account of communication during which instances of verbalizations, vocal or otherwise, were identified by their effect on a listener

Question 11

Verbal Operants

Answer 11

6 baisc speaker verbal operants identified by Skinner and by the listener operant response

Question 12

Speaker

Answer 12

When someone can govern the behavior of others by using various topographies of verbal behaviour

Question 13

Listener

Answer 13

Governed by verbal behavior of others as they respond to vocal sounds and other verbal topographies

Question 14

Mand

Answer 14

Verbal operant – occurs on under the conditions of deprivation/ aversive control. Reinforced by receiving target stimulus/ removal of a stimulus. Specifies its reinforcer

Question 15

Tact

Answer 15

Verbal operant – occurs under non-verbal stimulus control. Generalized reinforcement Relevant establishing operation = deprivation of generalized reinforcement

a. Pure – non-verbal antecedent control
b. Impure – verbal and non-verbal antecedent control

Question 16

Language Acquisition Device

Answer 16

Hypothetical module of human mind posited to accounted for children’s innate predisposition for language acquisition

Question 17

Motivating Operation

Answer 17

Explains the momentary effectiveness of consequences in operant conditioning

Question 18

Intraverbal

Answer 18

Class of verbal operants regulated by verbal discriminative stimuli

Question 19

Language

Answer 19

Method of human communication either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way

Question 20

Communication

Answer 20

The imparting or exchanging or information or news

Question 21

Echoic

Answer 21

Of or like an echo; echoic memory is the sensory memory component related to auditory information

Question 22

Transcription

Answer 22

A written or printed representation of something

Question 23

Point-to-Point Correspondence

Answer 23

Relationship between a verbal discriminative stimulus and the response it controls

Question 24

Textual

Answer 24

Of or relating to a text or texts

Question 25

Autoclitic

Answer 25

Verbal behavior that modifies the functions of other verbal behaivours