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Nerdy theorists
Amazing brain
What's in a language?
My kid is a genius.
Just jargon
100
I was a Swiss psychologist who believed that distancing and object permanence are prerequisites to language acquisition.
Who is Jean Piaget?
100
The brain is divided into two of these that are identical in nature.
What are hemispheres?
100
This is the study of a sound system of a language.
What is phonology?
100
This term describes incidents when both a parent and a child are focused on the same object and is an important precursor to language acquisition.
What is joint attention?
100
These are the defining features of executive function.
What are the abilities to initiate, shift, sustain, and inhibit?
200
I discount the idea that language is dependent on cognition with my descriptions of how I "think in pictures".
Who is Dr. Temple Grandin?
200
This is the dense collection of fibers that joins at the brain in the middle.
What is the corpus collosum?
200
These are the five components of language (that map onto the elements of language: form, content, and use).
What are phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics?
200
It is during the illocutionary stage that babies begin to acquire this essential feature of language. This shift changes their communication and occurs around 6 or 7 months of age.
What is communicative intent?
200
This term describes the phenomenon that children with early foundational skills in reading continue to grow in this area, while children with less foundational skill do not exhibit reading growth, thus leading to a "widening achievement gap".
What is the Matthew Effect?
300
I do not believe that language is learned at all. In fact, I describe the "language instinct".
Who is Dr. Steven Pinker?
300
This area of the brain, located in the middle of the left central hemisphere and found to be particularly important to language, is responsible for the organization of the complex motor sequences necessary for speech production.
What is Broca's area?
300
These are the four defining features of a language.
What are: having a shared code, used to communicate, employs arbitrary symbols, and is creative?
300
During the school years, children develop these features of pragmatics. (Name at least three.)
What are the ability to stay on topic, adjust for their audience, shift between topics, participate in extended dialogue, and offer relevant comments?
300
These several examples of the features of "parentese", or child–directed speech, between an adult and a child. (Name at least three.)
What is language that is reduced in length and complexity, includes a greater range of pitch, uses a limited vocabulary, short conversations, slower speech, exaggerated intonation and stress, reference to the here and now, and more questions and imperatives?
400
I think fighting is ridiculous and claim that language and cognition are interdependent on one another. Specifically, cognition couldn't progress with language and language couldn't develop without cognition.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
400
This area of the brain, located in the temporal lobe of the left hemisphere, is involved in the comprehension of language.
What is Wernicke's area?
400
These are the three language components that map onto the language element of "form".
What are phonology, morphology, and syntax?
400
The average amount of words a competent reader in middle school reads in a year.
What is 10,000,000?
400
This term describes the feature of the brain to change in response to experience or injury.
What is plasticity?
500
I describe adult language as providing the necessary 'scaffolding' for child language development.
Who is Jerome Bruner?
500
There are the four distinct areas (or lobes) of the brain.
What are the frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes?
500
These are the two areas of language that have been found to continue to develop into adulthood.
What are semantics and pragmatics?
500
These are the major areas of language development for school–age children. (Name at least two.)
What are metasyntactic awareness, metalinguistic ability, figurative language, indirect requests, narrative, and expository discourse?
500
This term describes the slight change in pronunciation of a morpheme that does not alter its meaning. For example, the ending –ed has three distinct pronunciation, /ed/, /t/, and /d/.
What is an allomorph?