Language
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Brain and Language
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Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning is what?
What is Language.
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The order of words in a language is called?
What is syntax.
100
Their ability to produce words, matures after their receptive language is called?
What is productive language.
100
Part of brain that controls language expression and is in the area of the frontal lobe is called?
What is Broca's area.
100
Hypothesis that language determines the way we think is called?
What is linguistic determinism.
200
A language, the smallest distinctive sound unit is called what?
What is Phoneme.
200
How many words do you learn in a year?
What is 3,500.
200
The stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language is called?
What is babbling stage.
200
Impairment of language, usually caused left-hemisphere damage either to Broca’s area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke’s area (impairing understanding) is called?
What is aphasia.
200
A practice that uses visual imagery to mentally rehearse future behaviors, activating some of the same brain areas used during the actual behaviors is called?
What is mental practice.
300
A language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix) is called?
What is morphemes.
300
From your first birthday to your high school graduation you learn about how many words?
What is 60,000
300
The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2 is called?
What is one-word stage.
300
Controls language reception and is in the left temporal lobe?
What is Wernicke's area.
300
How many morphemes are in the word cats?
What is two morphemes.
400
A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others is called?
What is Grammer.
400
Linguists surveyed near 500 languages have identified how many different phonemes in human speech?
What is 869.
400
Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development is called?
What is two-word stage.
400
Hearing words and auditory cortex come from which area?
What is Wernicke's area.
400
How many phonemes are in the word cats?
What is four phonemes.
500
Words that we derive meanings from is called?
What is Semantics.
500
Language is “the blank in the crown of cognition?
What is jewel.
500
Early speech stage using mostly nouns and verbs is called?
What is telegraphic speech.
500
A functional type of scan that shows different neural networks are activated by nouns and verbs, or objects and actions; by different vowels; and by reading stories of visual versus motor experiences.
What is MRI.
500
Whether spoken, written, or, signed, language is the original wireless communication that enables mind to mind information transfer, and with it the transmission of civilization's accumulated knowledge across what?
What is generations.