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Language

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Vervet monkeys   Animal that have different calls for different predators. Leopard call (climb trees), snake call (stand up and search ground), eagle call (rush to bushes)  
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Honey bees   Animal that do a "waggle dance" to find food relative to the sun  
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Apes   Animal that has been taught few words, but is most successful with sign communication  
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Washoe   Ape that called a swan in water "water bird," but critics say he was talking about the bird and water as two separate things  
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Koko   Ape that called Pinocchio "elephant baby"  
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Lana   Ape that wanted the fruit orange, but did not know word, so said "Tim give me orange apple"  
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Classical conditioning   Criticism against apes knowing language - could just be trained to do certain thing for reward, or imitating trainers  
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Symbolic, generative, structured   3 aspects of language  
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Generative language   Limited number of symbols can be combined to form infinite number of new combinations  
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Structured language   The phonemes in words  
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Phonemes   Set of basic sounds - word "afternoon" would have 8  
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Morphones   Smallest unit of meaning - word "afternoon" would have 2  
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Semantics   Rules used to derive meaning, like "-ed" means past  
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Syntax   Rules to order words into phrases or sentences, like "the cat" not "cat the"  
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Kanzi   Pygmy chimp that understood syntax - asked to make dog bite snake, so put snake in dog's mouth  
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6 months   Age for babies babbling (deaf babies can as well)  
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10-13 months   Age for babies using words  
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19-24 months   Age for fast mapping - being able to understand concept after one exposure  
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Overextension / overgeneralization   When child uses words incorrectly to describe wider set of objects or actions  
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Holophrases   Single words that act as sentences - used by babies  
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Two word stage / telegraphic speech   Stage when babies combine concepts to form few word sentences that will only contain nouns and verbs  
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Overregularization   When grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized, like "bestest class"  
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Metalinguistic awareness   Ability to reflect on the use of language, and understanding of complex sentences (like puns)  
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Behaviorist   Explanation for child development believing that language is acquired through learning processes like observational learning, operant conditioning, and shaping  
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Nativist   Explanation for child development believing that language is innate and we are born with hardware, and the experience that child lives through creates software  
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Skinner   Language behaviorist  
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Noam Chomsky   Language nativist that believed that there is an inborn universal grammar  
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Language Acquisition Device   Innate mechanism or process that facilitates learning of language - used as evidence for ease of language acquisition in childhood  
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Interactionists   Believe that language development is combination of nature and nurture, a mix of nativists and behaviorists  
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Critical period   Time between 2 years and puberty when mind is primed to learn language  
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Linguistic relativity   States that language determines the nature of one's thought - Whorf's hypothesis. Like how eskimos have many words for snow. Critics say they don't have many, and we have more than one.  
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Broca's area   Area of brain needed for necessary production of speech  
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Wernicke's area   Area of brain needed for language comprehension  
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Cognition   Mental processes involved in acquiring and using knowledge.  
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