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30 Cards in this Set
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Psycholinguistics
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Study of how individuals comprehend, produce and acquire language
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linguistics
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studies origin, structure and use of language
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Tacit Knowledge
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Knowledge on how to perform various acts
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explicit Knowledge
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knowledge of processes or mechanisms used in these acts.
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Semantics
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Meaning of sentences and words
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syntax
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grammatical arrangements of words within the same sentence
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Phonology
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Concerns system of sounds in a language
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Progmatics
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entails social rules involved in language use
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Garden path sentences
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Following a path in reading to a predictable destination until its obvious that you were mistaken in your interpretation
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Indirect Requests
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Ex. can you open the door. not asking if we literally have the ability to open the door.
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sociolinguistics
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study of relationships between language and social language
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Aphasia
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language disorder due to brain damage
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wernicke's aphasia
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break down in semantics
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nuerolinguistics
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study of relationship between brain and language
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Closed-Classed/Function Words
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Prepositions, conjuctions
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Open-Class/Content Words
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nouns, verbs, adjectives
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eye voice span
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lag between eye position and voice when reading out loud (about 6-7 words)
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Tachistoscope
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machine that presents visual stimuli for brief periods of time
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Behaviorism
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study of objective behavior rather than mental process
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HIGH MEANINGFUL WORDS
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words like kitchen are more easily learned than low meaningful words like icon
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semantic Differential
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tool for meaning associative meanings of words by asking people to rate words on dimensions such as good/bad or strong/weak
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Chomsky
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generally regarded as most influential figure in 20th century linguistics
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associative chain theory
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a sentence consists of a chain of associations between individual words in a sentence. (each word serves as a stimulus for the next word)
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Discontinuous Constituents
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Seperated words
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Poverty of stimulus argument
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there isn't enough info in language samples given to children to fully account for richness and complexity of childrens language.
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longitudinal investigations
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sample of childs speech collected at several points over a period of years
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rationalism
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emphasizes innate factors
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empricism
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emphasizes experiences
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Duality of patterning
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Grammatical concept that is basic to the study of languge
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Phones
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Speech sounds
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