Language
Development
Complex Language Structures
Emotions
The Brain
More Emotions
100

This type of communication involves directly showing or pointing to convey meaning

What is Ostensive Communication

100

This feature of language involves embedding phrases within other phrases

What is Recursion

100

These types of emotions are shared across cultures, like happiness, sadness, and fear 

What are Universal Emotions

100

This region of the brain is involved in emotions and includes structures like the amygdala

What is Limbic System

100

These types of emotions are categorized by their effects on well-being

What are Positive and Negative Emotions

200

This idea suggests that all humans share innate language rules

What is Universal Grammar

200

This hypothesis suggests that language evolves and is passed down through culture

What is Cultural Transmission Hypothesis

200

This refers to the outward display of emotions

What is Emotional Expression

200

This brain area is involved in decision-making and regulating emotion, assessing risks and rewards 

What is the Orbitofrontal Cortex

200

This view suggests that emotions are localized in specific areas of the brain

What is the Locationist Neuroscience View

300

This disorder refers to language development issues that are not related to other cognitive deficits

What is Specific Language Impairment (SLI)

300

This term refers to the internal experience or feeling of emotions

What is Emotional Experience

300

This system controls involuntary physiological responses to emotions

What is the Autonomic Nervous System

400

This concept explains how words change their form to reflect tense or number

What is Inflectional Morphology

400

These are cultural norms for expressing emotions, such as smiling even when unhappy to appear polite 

What is Display Rules

500

This process involves adjusting universal grammar based on language exposure

What is Parameter Setting

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