Building Blocks of Language
Forms of Language
Language Development
Animals and Language
Random Psychology
100
These are the smallest basic units of speech or sound.
What is/are PHONEME/S?
100
This is how babies let their parents know they are hungry, angry, or in pain, etc
What is crying?
100
The set of letters or characters used in writing a language
What is the alphabet?
100
to make the short loud cry of a dog
What is barking?
100
The scientific study of behavior and mental process.
What is psychology?
200
It is a SYSTEM OF RULES used to generate acceptable language so that we can communicate and understand others.
What is GRAMMAR?
200
This is the form of sign language used in the United States?
What is American Sign Language (ASL)?
200
The act of speaking or a public lecture
What is speech?
200
Trainers use this body part to communicate signals to dolphins
What are hands?
200
Father of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
300
The smallest MEANINGFUL units of language, formed from a combination of phonemes.
What is/are MORPHEME/S?
300
In this language "Por si las moscas" translates into "for the flies"
What is Spanish
300
Vowel like sounds that infants make beginning around 2-3 months of age
What is cooing?
300
In 1976 David Premack taught this tailless primate how to "read" and "write" by arranging plastic symbols on a magnetic board.
What is a chimpanzee?
300
This hemisphere of the brain is in charge of language functions such as, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language.
What is the left hemisphere?
400
They are GRAMMATICAL RULES for ordering words in sentences
What is SYNTAX?
400
Blind people use this to read
What is braile?
400
ITs the OVERUSE of the basic rules of grammar
What is OVERGENERALIZE?
400
This couple raised a baby chimp alongside their own son for a few years
Who is Winthrop and Luella Kellogg?
400
Located in the temporal lobe this area is in charge of all language comprehension.
What is Wernike's area?
500
The choosing of words according to the meaning we want to convey
What are SEMANTICS?
500
This is the innate that enables children to analyze language and extract the basic rules of grammar in any language
What is Language Acquisition Device (LAD)?
500
Linguist that came up with the linguistic relativity hypothesis
Who is Benjamin Whorf?
500
This animal learned to express itself through art
What is a dolphin?
500
Lobe of the brain that controls speech function or production.
What is Brocca's area?
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