ABSC 160 Chapter 9 Review Questions and Correct Answers
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Course
ABSC 160
Institution
ABSC 160
Phonology the study of the sounds of a language
Syntax the grammar of a language
Semantics the study of the meanings of words
Pragmatics the rules that guide how we use language in social situations
Morpheme the smallest unit in a language that has meaning
Phoneme the smallest distinct sound i...
ABSC 160 Chapter 9 Review Questions
and Correct Answers
Phonology ✅the study of the sounds of a language
Syntax ✅the grammar of a language
Semantics ✅the study of the meanings of words
Pragmatics ✅the rules that guide how we use language in social situations
Morpheme ✅the smallest unit in a language that has meaning
Phoneme ✅the smallest distinct sound in a particular language
Nativism ✅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 universal grammar
Universal grammar ✅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
Overregularizartion ✅a type of grammatical error in which children apply a language
rule to words that don't follow that rule or pattern
Interactionism ✅a theory of language development that proposes that the child's
biological readiness to learn languages interacts with the child's experiences with
language in the environment to bring about the childs language development
Recast ✅Repeating what children say but in a more advanced grammar to facilitate
language learning
Cognitive processing theory ✅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 ✅the likelihood that one particular sound will follow another one
to form a word
Broca's area ✅the part of the brain that is involved in the physical production of speech
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