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A verbal or spoken means of communicating. It requires precise neuromuscular coordination and results from planning and executing specific motor sequences.
What is speech?
The form or structure of a sentence (also know as grammar) is governed by the rules of this domain of language.
What is syntax?
This complex paralinguistic cue includes the use of pitch and is used to signal the mood of an utterance.
What is intonation?
A system of rules governing the meaning or content of words and word combinations.
What is Semantics?
This type of morpheme includes suffixes only. They change the state or increase the precision of the free morpheme.
What is inflectional?
A socially shared code or system for representing concepts through the use of symbols and rules that govern how they're combined.
What is language?
Grammatical markers that cannot function independently (e.g., -s, -est, un-, -ly)
What is a bound morpheme?
This is the aspect of language concerned with the rules governing the structure, distribution, and sequencing of speech sounds and the shape of syllables.
What is phonology?
This is the smallest grammatical unit and is indivisable without violating the meaning or producing meaningless units.
What is a morpheme?
This area of language is concerned with the rules governing the structure, distribution, and sequencing of speech sounds and the shape of syllables.
What is Phonology?
What is paralinguistic?
This is the location of the brain Noam Chomsky and others theorized contained universal rules that could explain how children decipher and learn language.
What is the "LAD" or Language Acquisition Device?
These types of cues include gestures, body posture, facial expression, eye contact, head and body movement, and proxemics and convey information without the use of language.
What is nonlinguistic?
The social use of language and on how you use language to achieved your communication goals. This is also the organizing principle of language.
What is Pragmatics?
The ability to talk about language, analyze it, think about it, judge it, and see it as an entity separate from its content or context.
What is metalinguistics?
This approach assumes that children acquire language because they are born with innate rules or principles related to structures of human languages.
What is generative or nativist?
A language-ruled system used by an identifiable group of people that varies in some way from an ideal language standard.
What is a dialect?
These professionals study language rules and use as a function of role, SES, and context.
What are sociolinguists?
Syntax, morphology, and phonology make up component of language.
What is form?
Language is a social tool, rule governed system, arbitrary, and ________.
What is generative?
This is a parent's adapted way of speaking to a child (aka CDS)?
What is child-directed speech (CDS)?
This psychologist started the Behaviorism Learning Theory. In his book Verbal Behavior he proposed that parents model language for a child, who, in turn, imitates the model, and then is reinforced by the parents for correct imitations.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Theses theorists are concerned with the thought process behind the behaviors of language and believe changes in behavior are indicative of that thought process. They assume memory is an active and organized processed and prior knowledge plays an important role in learning.
Who are Cognitivists?
This theory attempts to explain how the brain deals with information, uses it to enhance future learning, and calls upon information for recall.
What is Information Processing Theory?
According to the Cognitivist Theory, this is the use of exiting schemes to incorporate external stimuli.
What is assimilation?