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Chapter 7 Language
PSY
Question | Answer |
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Language | The communication of information through symbols arranged according to systematic rules |
Grammar | The system of rules that determine how our thoughts can be expressed. |
Phonology | The study of the smallest units of speech, called phonemes. |
Phonemes | The smallest units of speech. |
Syntax | Ways in chich words and phrases an be combined to form sentences |
Babble | Meaningless speechlike sounds made by children from around the age of 3 months through 1 year |
Telegraphic Speech | Sentences in which words not critical to the message are left out. |
Overgeneralization | The phenomenon by which children apply language rules even when the aplication results in an error. |
Learning-theory approach (to language development) | The theory suggesting that language acquisition follows the principles o reinforcement and conditioning. |
Nativist approach ( to language development) | The theory that a genetically determined, innate mechanism directs language development. |
Universal Grammar | Noam Chomsky's theory that all the worlds languages share a common uderlying structure. |
Language-acquisition device | A neural system of the brain hypothesized by Noam Chomsky to permit understanding of language. |
Interactiontionist approach (to language development) | The view that language development is produced through a combination of genetically determined predispositions and environmental circumstances that help teach language. |