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18 Cards in this Set
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Spoken, written, or signed words and the ways they are combined to communicate meaning constitute |
language |
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When Fred pronounced the words this and that, he noticed that they share a common |
phenome |
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The smallest speech units that carry meaning are called |
morphemes |
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In the words lightly, neatly, and shortly, the ly ending is a(n) |
morpheme |
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When her teacher mentioned the arms race, Krista understood that the word “arms” referred to weapons and not to bodyparts. Krista's correct interpretation best illustrates the importance of |
semantics |
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A European visitor to the United States asked a taxi driver, “Can you please a ride to the airport me give?” This visitorhas apparently not yet mastered the ________ of the English language. |
syntax |
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The ability to comprehend the meaning of speech is called |
receptive language |
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The beginning of babies' receptive language development is best illustrated by their capacity to |
match another person's distinctive mouth movements with the appropriate sounds |
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The spontaneous utterance of a variety of sounds by infants is called |
babbling |
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During the earliest stage of speech development, infants |
make some speech sounds that do not occur in their parents' native language |
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Two-year-old Dirk's sentences—“Dad come,” “Mom laugh,” and “Truck gone”—are examples of |
telegraphic speech |
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Applying familiar learning principles to language development, B. F. Skinner emphasized that language is acquiredthrough |
all of these actions. |
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. According to Chomsky, the fact that young children generate all sorts of sentences they have never heard beforesuggests that |
language skills are not developed simply through the processes of imitation and reinforcement |
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Chomsky's theory of language development suggests that children have an inborn |
language acquisition device. |
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Research suggests that humans can most easily master the grammar of a second language during |
childhood |
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After she suffered a stroke, Mrs. Jacobitz had so much difficulty speaking that she had to communicate by writing. Thissuggests that her brain damage occurred in |
Broca's area. |
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The part of the left temporal lobe that is involved in understanding language is known as |
Wernicke's area. |
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Damage to different cortical areas results in different forms of aphasia. This best illustrates that language processinginvolves multiple |
neural networks. |
