Chapter 1
The smallest unit of meaning in language.
What is a morpheme?
Chomsky proposed this concept.
What is the Language Acquisition Device?
This structure connects the left and right hemisphere of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
This appears for infants at 6-7 months old.
What is reduplicated babbling?
Ex: "ba ba"
The skills a child can learn with guidance. Provide example.
What is the zone of proximal development?
ex: expanding vocabulary, labeling items, etc
How we exchange information
What is communication?
Exaggerated language adults use when speaking with children.
What is motherse?
This is located in the left, frontal lobe and is responsible for planning for speech production.
What is Broca's Area?
This lobe is responsible for visual processing.
What is the occipital lobe?
A subcategory of a parent language with similar but not identical rules.
What is a dialect?
The component that has rules for sentence structure.
What is syntax?
Data analysis based on statistics.
What is quantitative data?
This is located in the temporal lobe and is responsible for language comprehension.
What is Wernicke's Area?
An imitation of another person's speech.
What is echolalia?
- er is an example of this.
What is a bound morpheme?
The word runners (morphemes).
What is an example of a word with 3 morphemes?
Ex: run, -er, -s= 3 morphemes
Children play a role in learning language and their language is learned from the environment and social interaction.
What is the constructionist/interactionist approach?
This lobe is responsible for EF and planning.
What is the frontal lobe?
Study that found children in higher SES home heard 30M more words by age 4, which led to stronger semantics and school successes.
What is the Hart & Risley's (1995) study?
What is variegated babbling?
Ex: "ba-de"
The 5 components of language.
What is syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics?
This approach assumes that children are born with language and don't require instruction of language.
What is the generative/nativist approach?
This process strengthens neurons and insulates axons.
What is Myelination?
A caregiver and child focus on the same object which is essential for learning words.
The right hemisphere controls the left body and vice versa. Provide example.
What is contralateral control?