Week 13-language

Question 0

When both the sender and the receiver understand it is called:

Answer 0

Comprehension

Question 1

What is Language?

Answer 1

It is a method for communicating information including ideas, thoughts and emotions. It is symbolic. It is used to create novel ideas. And can be something not happening here and now.

Question 2

What is Semanticity?

Answer 2

The extent to which a language can use symbols to transmit meaningful messages.

Question 3

What is Generativity?

Answer 3

The ability to combine words or symbols or a language using rules of composition and syntax to communicate an almost infinite variety of ideas using a relatively small vocabulary.

Question 4

To be considered a language, any form of communication had to have….?

Answer 4

Displacement

Question 5

What is displacement?

Answer 5

The ability to convey a message that is not tied to the current time and place. Communicate events about past and future and or another location.

Question 6

What is an example of semancity?

Answer 6

A bee doing a circle dance to let others know where flowers are.
Or. Monkeys call when in danger.
Or. Flower arrangement.

Question 7

What is an example of Generativity

Answer 7

“The ball hit the boy” “ The boy hit the ball”. They both have the same words but the order switches the meaning.

Question 8

Identify 3 key properties of human language

Answer 8

Semanticity. Generativity. Displacement.

Question 9

What is a phoneme?

Answer 9

The basic distinctive speech sounds Ina language that distinguish one words from another. For example ‘rice’ and ‘lice’

Question 10

What are morphemes?

Answer 10

The smallest unit of meaning in language. Phonemes are combined to make morphemes. They act like the building blocks to create words.

Question 11

What are semantics?

Answer 11

The relationship between words and their meanings

Question 12

What is Syntax?

Answer 12

Grammatical rules of a particular language for combing in words to form phrases, clauses, and sentences.

Question 13

What are Pragmatics?

Answer 13

The social rules of language that allow people to use language appropriately for different purposes and in different situations.

Question 14

What are the three steps/points that one has to hear to comprehend and utterance?

Answer 14

1. Recognize the sounds (phonemes)
2. Identify words and their meanings (access morphology and semantic knowledge)
3. Analyze the syntax of the message.

Question 15

What are articulators?

Answer 15

Mouth structures that make speech sounds ( jaw, tongue, lips, and soft palate)

Question 16

What is coarticulation?

Answer 16

Speech sounds for words are not produced in a discrete sequence. Instead, the articulators are effectively shaping sounds at any moment in time, so that different instances of a particular phoneme are acoustically different depending in the sounds proceeding them.

Question 17

What is the name of exaggerated expressive verbal and non verbal communication used with infants?

Answer 17

Infant Direct Talk (IDT)

Question 18

When a child overextends a word what does that mean?

Answer 18

Generalize known words to a wider variety of contexts that is appropriate for those words.

Question 19

What is an example of overextension?

Answer 19

When a child says dada when he or she sees another man. Or point to a piece of tape and say ouch recognizing that it is like a bandaid.

Question 20

When an infant under extends a word this means what?

Answer 20

That they limit context for generalized words to a certain specific meaning.

Question 21

What is an example of under extension?

Answer 21

For example the word “ball” may just refer to their ball and not any other spherical toys.

Question 22

What is a vocabulary spurt and at what age to children normally have this?

Answer 22

A vocabulary spurt is a period of strong language growth in children in which they are able to learn and use a large number of words.
-usually by around the age of 18months of age infants may be able to produce as many as 50 words. Then go on a frenzy of learning new words.

Question 23

What is telegraphic speech?

Answer 23

Speech that sounds much like a telegram, with only the essential words, has words arranged in and order that makes sense and contacts almost all mounds and verbs strung together in pairs.

Question 24

What is the theory of language development that proposes that children are born with an innate knowledge of universal grammar called?

Answer 24

Nativism

Question 25

What is an Interactionist?

Answer 25

A person who believes that language development results from interaction around multiple biological and social influences.

Question 26

The _______hemisphere is usually used for language

Answer 26

Left