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Psych Unit 7
Language
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Language | Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning. |
| Phonemes | In a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit. |
| Morphemes | In a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or part of a word (such as a prefix). |
| Grammar | In a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others. |
| Sematics | Is the set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds. |
| Syntax | Is the set of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences. |
| Babbling Stage | Beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language. |
| One-word Stage | The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words. |
| Two-word Stage | Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in two-word statements. |
| Telegraphic Speech | Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram -- "go car" --using mostly nouns and verbs. |
| Aphasia | Impairment of language, usually caused by left-hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding). |
| Broca's Area | Controls language expression -- an area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere, that directs the muscle movements involved in speech. |
| Wernicke's Area | Controls language reception -- a brain area involved in language comprehension and expression; usually in the left temporal lobe. |
| Linguistic Determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think (extreme view). |