Language - Correct Answer a system of symbols used to communicate with others or in our thinking
Phonology - Correct Answer the study of the sounds of language
Phoneme - Correct Answer the smallest distinct sound in a particular language
morphology - Correct Answer the way words ar...
ABSC 160 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS AND QUALITY ANSWERS
Language - Correct Answer a system of symbols used to communicate with others or in our thinking
Phonology - Correct Answer the study of the sounds of language
Phoneme - Correct Answer the smallest distinct sound in a particular language
morphology - Correct Answer the way words are formed from the sounds of a language and how these
words are related to other words
morpheme - Correct Answer the smallest unit in language that has meaning
syntax - Correct Answer the grammar of a language
semantics - Correct Answer the study of the meaning of words
pragmatics - Correct Answer the rules that guide how we use language in social situations
Broca's area - Correct Answer the part of the brain that is involved in physical production of speech
Wernicke's area - Correct Answer the part of the brain that has to do with understanding the meaning
of speech
receptive language - Correct Answer the ability to understand words or sentences
expressive language - Correct Answer the written or spoken language that we use to convey our
thoughts, emotions or needs
,Nativism - Correct Answer a theory of language development that hypothesizes that human brains are
innately wired to learn language and that hearing spoken language triggers the activation of a universal
grammar
universal grammar - Correct Answer A hypothesized set of grammatical rules and constraints proposed
by Chomsky that is thought to underlie all languages and that is hardwired in the human brain
Overregularization - Correct Answer a type of grammatical error in which children apply a language rule
to words that don't follow that rule or pattern (for example, adding an "s" to make the plural of an
irregular sound like foot)
interactionism - Correct Answer a theory of language development that proposes that the child's
biological readiness to learn language interacts with the child's experiences with language in the
environment to brin about the child's language development
recast - Correct Answer repeating what children say but in a more advanced grammar to facilitate
language learning
cognitive processing theory - Correct Answer the theory that learning language is a process of "data
crunching," in which the actual process of learning words and their meanings relies on the
computational ability of the human brain
transitional probability - Correct Answer the likelihood that one particular sound all follow another one
to form a word
cooing - Correct Answer soft vowel sounds, such as ooh and aah
child-directed speech - Correct Answer speech that is tailored to fit the sensory and cognitive
capabilities of infants and children so that it holds their attention; includes speaking in a higher pitch
with exaggerated intonation and a singsong rhythm and using a simplified vocabulary
vocabulary burst - Correct Answer the rapid growth of a child's vocabulary that often occurs in the
second year
, constraints - Correct Answer assumptions language learners make that limit the alternative meanings
that they attribute to new words
whole object bias - Correct Answer an assumption made by language learners that a word describes
entire object, rater than just some portion of it
mutual exclusivity constraint - Correct Answer an assumption made by language learners that there is
one (and only one) name for an object
taxonomic constraint - Correct Answer an assumption language learners make that two objects that
have features in common can have a name in common, but that each object also can have its own
individual name
syntactic bootstrapping - Correct Answer the use of syntax to learn the meaning of new words
(semantics)
semantic bootstrapping - Correct Answer the use of conceptual categories to create grammatical
categories
Fast mapping - Correct Answer a process by which children apply constraints and their knowledge of
grammar to learn new words very quickly, often after single exposure
telegraphic speech - Correct Answer a stage in language development in which children only use the
words necessary get their point across and omit small words that are not necessary (for example, "Go
bye-bye)
Discourse skills - Correct Answer the ability to understand whether a story or information someone is
hearing makes logical sense
metalinguistic abilities - Correct Answer the abilities to think about and talk about language
emergent literacy - Correct Answer the set of skills that develop before children begin formal reading
instruction, that provide the foundation for later academic skills
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