AP Psychology Ch.09 Part 2 Language

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language
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refers to spoken, written, or signed words and how we combine them to communicate meaning
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phonemes
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the smallest units of sound in a language that are distinctive for speakers of the language
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morphemes
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smallest units of language that carry meaning
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grammar
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system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others
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semantics
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set of rules used to derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language
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syntax rules
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for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
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babbling stage
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begins around 4 months, is characterized by the spontaneous utterance of speech sounds. During the babbling stage, children the world over sound alike
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one-word stage
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between 1 and 2 years of age, children speak mostly in single words; linguistic development
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two-word stage
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beginning around age 2, children speak mostly in two-word sentences
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telegraphic speech
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economical, telegram-like speech of children in the two-word stage. Utterances consist mostly of nouns and verbs; however, words occur in the correct order, showing that the child has learned some language's syntactic rules
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aphasia
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an impairment of language as a result of damage to any of several cortical areas, including Broca's area and Wernicke's area
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Broca's area
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located in the left frontal lobe, is involved in controlling the motor ability to produce speech
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Wernicke's area
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located in the left temporal lobe, is involved in language comprehension and expression
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linguistic determinism
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Benjamin Whorf's hypthesis that language determines the way we think