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Language Acquisition
The ABC's of Language
Language in Society
Phonology
Language Processing and the Human Brain
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This demonstrates that children apply the correct plural allomorph to nouns they never heard before.
What is a wug test
100
“picture writings” used for communication that are direct images of the objects represented.
What is pictograms
100
The language of an individual speaker with its unique characteristics is called
What is idiolect
100
the study of how speech sounds form patterns
What is phonology
100
the study of linguistic performance in speech production and comprehension
What is Psycholinguistics
200
a phase when children omit function morphemes such as articles, subject pronouns, auxiliaries, and verbal inflection.
What is the telegraphic stage
200
symbols of a word-writing system, are ideograms that represent a concept and the word or morpheme for that concept.
What is logograms
200
the dominant dialect in America
What is Standard American English
200
particular phonological rules that determine the phonetic form of morphemes are
What is morphophonemic rules
200
the scientific study of language
What is linguistics
300
the notion that children first use the meaning of a word to figure out its syntactic category.
What is Semantic bootstrapping
300
When a graphic sign no longer has a visual relationship to the word it represents, it becomes a
What is a phonographic symbol
300
a social dialect spoken by a large population of Americans of African descent
What is African American English
300
the basic unit of sound and are sensed in your mind rather than spoken or heard
What is Phonemes
300
the left and right hemispheres of the brain function contralaterally
What is Cerebral hemispheres
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children are able to learn language because adults speak to them in a simplified version of language known as.
What is motherese, child-directed speech or baby talk.
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a written character represents both the meaning and pronunciation of each word or morpheme
What is a logographic writing system
400
a language common to speakers of diverse languages that can be used for communication and commerce
What is lingua franca
400
Each phoneme has one or more sounds are called
What is allophones
400
any language disorder that results from brain damage caused by disease or trauma
What is Aphasia
500
acquisition of two languages simultaneously from infancy.
What is Bilingual language acquisition
500
The Chinese used this type of writing to learn their language
What is pinyin
500
a language that has evolved in a contact situation to become the native language of a generation of speakers
What is creole
500
a rule that makes neighboring segments more similar by duplicating a phonetic property
What is assimilation rule
500
difficulty in finding the word you want to say
What is tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon