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Language Development Test 1

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What is the physical representation of language?   Respiration, phonation, articulation, resonation  
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How has language evolved?   Evolves within specific historical, social and cultural contexts  
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Language is described by 5 parameters, what are they?   Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics  
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What is language?   A socially shared code that uses a conventional system to represent ideas about the world that are meaningful to people who know the same code.  
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What is the first point about language?   Language is socially shared.  
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What is the second point about language?   Language is a code that uses a system of arbitrary symbols. Words provide code for communicating.  
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What is a language community?   A group of people who use a common language.  
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What is the third point about language?   Language code is conventional. It is specific, systematic, and rule governed.  
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Morpheme   Smallest unit of spoken language that carries meaning.  
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What is the fourth point about language?   Language is a representational tool. Used for thinking and allows us to communicate these thoughts with others.  
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Language is...   Species specific and species uniform  
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True language has:   Productivity, semanticity, and displacement.  
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Traditional communication theory has:   sender, receiver, medium, and message  
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Modularity   Cognitive science theory about how the human mind is organized within brain structures.  
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Domain specific   Regions in the brain that process specific types of information.  
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Domain general   Brain has generalized module where all parts work together to process information.  
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Phonology (1st part of Language)   Rules governing structure, distribution, and sequencing of speech sounds and the shape of syllables.  
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Morphology (2nd part of Language)   Internal organization of words.  
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Syntax (3rd part of Language)   Rules that govern the form and structure of sentences, specific word order, sentence organization, and relationships between words.  
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Semantics (4th part of Language)   Rules governing meaning or content of words and word combinations. Words that represent concepts.  
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Pragmatics (5th part of language)   Rules related to language use within communicative context. Govern conversations. Organizing principle of language.  
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Lenneberg's Characterization of Language   Regular onset of speech, speech is not suppressible, language can't be taught to other species  
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Theory of Mind   Recognizing that other people have their own beliefs and desires...ability to imagine the world from someone else's point of view.  
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Aphasia   Impairment of language function due to localized brain damage which leads to difficulty understanding and/or producing linguistic forms.  
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What does aphasia affect?   Speaking, hearing, listening, reading, and/or writing.  
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Fluent Aphasia   Impairment in language comprehension, word retrieval difficulties, phonemic and semantic difficulties. Speech likely to contain nonsense words (neologisms).  
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Nonfluent Aphasia   Poor language output, reduced vocab, impairments of articulation, rate, and prosody. Better comprehension than production.  
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Broca's Area   Left frontal lobe. Helps with speech production. (Nonfluent Aphasia)  
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Wernicke's Area   Left posterior temporal lobe. Language planning and comprehension. (Fluent Aphasia)  
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Arcuate Fasciculus   Bundle of white matter (axons) located below cortex between Wernicke's Area and Broca's area. Provides a connection between 2 areas.  
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Conduction Aphasia   Trouble comprehending/ producing complex language, but simple language tasks can be done.  
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Localization   Attributing very specific language functions to specific brain regions.  
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Williams Syndrome   Relatively intact grammar and vocab with severe deficits in cognitive abilities.  
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Specific Language Impairment   cognitive abilities within normal range, but deficits in vocab and sever deficits in morphosyntax.  
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Autism   Cognitive abilities can be within normal range, but difficulty with language and social interactions.  
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Critical Age Hypothesis   Children reared in isolation, language creation, late onset of language.  
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Pidgin   Simplified language derived from 2 languages by people who don't share a common language. Absence of complex grammar and has limited vocabulary.  
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Creole   Pidgin language that has evolved and begins to be acquired by children as their native language and it becomes the first language of a community.  
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Productivity   Speakers can make new utterances and recombine forms they already know to express novel utterances. Language is generative.  
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Semanticity   Speakers can use language to refer to ideas, events, objects. Language is symbolic.  
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Displacement   Speakers can use language to talk about things not in the here and now. Language is decontextualized.  
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