branch of psychology devoted to to the study of verbal behaviour
What is PSYCHOLINGUISTICS?
100
loss of ability to produce or comprehend speech
What is AGRAMMATISM?
100
Reading by decoding the phonetic significance of letter strings
What is PHONETIC READING?
100
String of phonemes that an infant invents and uses as a word.
What is PROTOWORD?
200
the minimum unit of sound that conveys meaning in a particular language
What is PHONEME?
200
Area of the left temporal lobe involved in word recognition.
What is WERNICKE'S AREA?
200
Reading by recognizing a word as a whole
What is WHOLE-WORD READING?
200
Speech of an adult directed toward a child is often characterized as clear pronunciation, exaggerated intonations, and few function words.
It is also known as motherese
What is CHILD-DIRECTED SPEECH?
300
the delay between the sound of a consonant and the onset of the vibration of the vocal cords
What is VOICE-ONSET TIME?
300
Ability to hear, speak and write but can't comprehend meaning of speech.
What is PURE WORD DEAFNESS?
300
Language disorder caused by brain damage in which people can read words aloud without understanding them
What is DIRECT DYSLEXIA?
300
Errors in language that occur when learners produce incorrect words or statements based on other rules of langauge.
What is OVERGENERALIZATION ERRORS?
400
a noun, verb, or adjective that conveys meaning
What are CONTENT WORDS?
400
Language disturbance that includes an inability to comprehend speech or to produce meaningful speech. However, one is able to repeat speech.
Damage occures in the left temporal/parietal cortex surrounding the wernicke's area.
What is ISOLATION APHASIA?
400
Reading disorder in which people can read words phonetically but have difficulty reading irregularly spelled words such as YACHT.
What is SURFACE DYSLEXIA?
400
The use of a word to refer to a smaller class of items than is appropriate
What is UNDEREXTENSION?
500
refers to the meaning of a sentence
What is DEEP STRUCTURE?
500
Severe difficulty in articulating words due to damage to the a region of the frontal cortex on the left side of the brain.
What is BROCA'S APHASIA?
500
Rapid jumps that our eyes make when we scan a scene.
What are SACCADES?
500
Change in the form of a word to denote a change in grammatical feature.
For example CHANGE becomes CHANGED