SAFMEDS Unit 1 Flashcards
Phonology
Branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages
Phoneme
Smallest contrastive linguistic unit which may bring about a change of meaning
Semantics
Branch of language concerned with a meaning. Meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text
Lexicon
Vocabulary of person, language, or branch of knowledge
Syntax
Arrangement of words and phrases to create well - formed sentences
Grammar
Study of and set of structural rules that governs the composition of phrases and words
Pragmatics
Studies ways that context contributes to meaning
Expressive Language
Ability to form thoughts into grammatically accurate words and sentences
Receptive Language
Ability to understand/comprehend heard or read language
Verbal Behaviour
Functional account of communication during which instances of verbalizations, vocal or otherwise, were identified by their effect on a listener
Verbal Operants
6 baisc speaker verbal operants identified by Skinner and by the listener operant response
Speaker
When someone can govern the behavior of others by using various topographies of verbal behaviour
Listener
Governed by verbal behavior of others as they respond to vocal sounds and other verbal topographies
Mand
Verbal operant – occurs on under the conditions of deprivation/ aversive control. Reinforced by receiving target stimulus/ removal of a stimulus. Specifies its reinforcer
Tact
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
Language Acquisition Device
Hypothetical module of human mind posited to accounted for children’s innate predisposition for language acquisition
Motivating Operation
Explains the momentary effectiveness of consequences in operant conditioning
Intraverbal
Class of verbal operants regulated by verbal discriminative stimuli
Language
Method of human communication either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way
Communication
The imparting or exchanging or information or news
Echoic
Of or like an echo; echoic memory is the sensory memory component related to auditory information
Transcription
A written or printed representation of something
Point-to-Point Correspondence
Relationship between a verbal discriminative stimulus and the response it controls
Textual
Of or relating to a text or texts
Autoclitic
Verbal behavior that modifies the functions of other verbal behaivours
