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PSY291 - Language

Powerpoint 1 - Language

What is LANGUAGE? A system for communicating with other using signals that are combined according to rules of grammar and convey meaning
What is GRAMMAR? A set of rules that specify how the units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages
What are PHONEMES? The smallest units of sound that are recognizable as speech rather than as random noise
What are MORPHEMES? The smallest meaningful units of language
What do PHONOLOGICAL RULES indicate? How phonemes can be combined to produce speech sounds
What are MORPHOLOGICAL RULES? A set of rules that indicate how morphemes can be combined to form words
What are SYNTACTICAL RULES? A set of rules that indicate how words can be combined to form phrases and sentences
What does DEEP STRUCTURE refer to? The meaning of a sentence
What does SURFACE STRUCTURE refer to? How the sentence is worded
What is Language development like in an infant from birth to 6 months? Can distinguish sounds that occur in human languages, but that ability is lost in the first 6 months as babies learn to distinguish the sounds of language spoken around them
What stage of language development are most babies at from 4-6 months? Most babies begin to babble speech sounds
What stage of language development are babies at from 10 to 12 months? Most babies begin to speak or sign their first words
What stage of language development are babies at around 18 months? Most babies can say approximately 50 words and understand many more
Toddlers tend to learn _________ before __________ nouns before verbs
What is FAST MAPPING? Where children are able to map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
Around 2 years of age telegraphic speech occurs. What is TELEGRAPHIC SPEECH? The creation of simple sentences devoid of function morphemes which consist mostly of content words. These sentences, while simple, tend to follow syntax rules.
What is language development like at ages 4-5? The child moves from imitating adult speech to attempting to acquire the grammatical rules of their language.
What are the behaviourist theories of Language Learning? Behaviorists (Like Skinner training the rats using reinforcements) believe that behaviors are trained through operant conditioning.
Within the Behaviorist theory on language learning, how would language acquisition be reinforced? In increments. As children imitate adult language and get it right, they would be reinforced and so encouraged to continue.
What are three critiques discussed in class of the Behaviorist theories of Language Learning? 1. Adults sometimes reinforce incorrect grammar and syntax 2. Children don't just imitate language, but make up their own sentences using language rules 3. The over-generalization of rules among young-ins suggest a more refined process than imitation
The NATIVIST THEORY of language learning is... The view that language development is best explained as an innate biological capacity
NATIVIST THEORIES explain why... Language develops, but don't break down how it develops
What is the INTERACTIONIST APPROACH to language learning? Although infants are born with an innate ability to acquire language, social interactions also play a crucial role in language
The INTERACTIONIST THEORY explains... Differences in language development amongst different cultural groups
Language acquisition doesn't... Necessarily correspond with other forms of intelligence
There is a _________ for acquiring language... There is a window for acquiring language and studies have shown that learning second languages early in life impacts the brain differently than later second language acquisition
Language in the brain: As the brain matures language processing becomes... More and more focused in two areas: 1. Broca's Area 2. Wernicke's Area
What is Broca's Area and where is it located? Is involved in the production of the sequential patterns in language and it is located in the left frontal cortex
What is Wernicke's Area and where is it located? Is involved in language comprehension and is located in the left temporal cortex
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