đź“–Basics of Language
The smallest unit of sound in language.
What is a phoneme?
The study of word and sentence meaning.
What is semantics?
Linguist who proposed innate language ability.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
Sentences with these (like “not”) take longer to process.
What are negatives?
Difficulty producing speech due to brain damage.
What is Broca’s aphasia?
The smallest unit of meaning in language.
What is a morpheme?
The social rules that guide how language is used.
What is pragmatics?
The underlying meaning of a sentence.
What is deep structure?
This type of sentence is harder to understand than active voice.
What is passive voice?
Difficulty understanding language due to brain damage.
What is Wernicke’s aphasia?
The study of how words are formed from smaller units.
What is morphology?
The interdisciplinary field that studies how people use language.
What is psycholinguistics?
The actual spoken or written form of a sentence.
What is surface structure?
Complex sentences with embedded phrases are called this.
What is a nested structure?
The left hemisphere primarily handles this function.
What is language processing?
The rules that organize words into sentences.
What is syntax?
This approach emphasizes that language is used to communicate meaning in everyday life.
What is the cognitive-functional approach?
Rules that transform deep structure into surface structure.
What are transformational rules?
This type of ambiguity involves words with multiple meanings.
What is lexical ambiguity?
This technique measures brain activity using blood flow.
What is fMRI?
The system that includes both word structure and sentence structure.
What is grammar?
This theorist emphasized children’s social and cognitive skills in language learning.
Who is Michael Tomasello?
When one sentence has multiple meanings due to structure.
What is ambiguity?
This type of ambiguity involves unclear sentence structure.
What is syntactic ambiguity?
This condition refers to general difficulty communicating due to brain damage.
What is aphasia?