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Parts of Language
Theories of Language Acquisition
Language and the Brain
Langauge Development
100
Smallest unit that contains meaning
What are morphemes?
100
Believed that language is a product of associative principles and operant conditioning
Who is Skinner?
100
A neurological impairment of language usually caused by left hemisphere damage
What is aphasia?
100
The stage at which an infant can recognize sounds and read lips
What is infancy?
200
Distinctive units of sound
What are phonemes
200
Believed that language learning is an innate process
Who is Chomsky
200
Involved with the production of speech
What is Broca's area?
200
An infant produces sounds in a language their family does not speak. The infant is __________
What is babbling?
300
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What is the number of languages in the world
300
Humans are born with an innate ability to acquire langauge and a genetic predisposition to learn grammatical rules
What is universal grammar?
300
Involved in expression and comprehension of language
What is Wernicke's area?
300
The stage at which a child produces telegraphic speech
What is the two-word stage?
400
System of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others
What is grammar
400
Behaviour is modified by adding something positive or removing something unpleasant from the environment
What is reinforcement?
400
Talk is to Broca's area as understand is to
What is Wernicke's area?
400
The age at which an infant speaks mostly in single words
What is the one-word stage?
500
A set of spoken, written or signed words and the way we combine them to communicate meaning
What is language
500
An association is made between a behaviour and a consequence of that behaviour
What is operant conditioning?
500
This area is damaged in an individual who possesses receptive language but not productive language
What is Broca's area?
500
The early speech stage in which a child combines nouns and verbs -- e.g. "go car"
What is telegraphic speech?