SLHS 309 Purdue Exam 1 UPDATED Actual Questions and CORRECT Answers
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SLHS 309 Purdue Exam 1 UPDATED
Actual Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is language? - CORRECT ANSWER- a systematic and conventional use of sounds
(or signs or written symbols) for the purpose of communication or self-expression
Arbitrariness - CORRECT ANSWER- no "natural" connection between...
SLHS 309 Purdue Exam 1 UPDATED
Actual Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is language? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a systematic and conventional use of sounds
(or signs or written symbols) for the purpose of communication or self-expression
Arbitrariness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- no "natural" connection between form and
meaning.
Displacement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- can be about things distant in space and time.
Productivity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- can create an infinite number of new utterances
with a finite set of meaningful symbols.
EX: take a few already meaningful words to create new sentences/phrases
duality of patterning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Meaningless parts of language can be
recombined in a systematic way to create new forms
EX: Brunch, UN-stoppable
Semanticity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- specific signals can be matched with specific
meanings
Cultural Transmission - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- learned in the context of social
interactions.
Component of language:
Phonetics/ phonology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the sound system of language
Component of language:
Lexicon / Semantics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- vocab and meaning
,Component of language:
Morphology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- System for combining units of meaning together
Component of language:
Syntax - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- how words and morphemes are combined together
Component of language:
Pragmatics & Sociolinguistics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- how language is used
appropriately in a socially and communicative appropriate way
EX: intonation
Nativist View - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Biological, Natural, specific to language
As we evolve, our cognitive toolkit specializes & new tools develop for new skills
EX: Swiss army knife
Empiricist View - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Rely on experience, not specific to language
As we evolve, we use the same cognitive tools for new tasks
EX: Giraffe---> re-purposing same parts for new function
Nature VS Nurture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Biology VS environment
Plato's Problem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is it innate? Why/How do we know so much?
3 parts to this theory:
1. Poverty of stimulus
, 2. Degenerate input
3. Lack of evidence
Poverty of stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- some complex structures almost NEVER
occur in child speech
children not exposed to rich enough data within their linguistic environments to acquire every
feature of their language
Degenerate Input - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The idea that there are diff. models for
language learning and not all are ideal.
Everyday convo doesn't make sense from outsiders view
EX:
DrB: we need more...
MrDrB: ...drop it!
PuppyDrB: <drops shoe>
DrB: what? Oh. Almond Milk.
MrDrB: Added to grocery list?
DrB: done
Negative Input - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- No explicit teaching of what is/not wrong in
language for children
Children are rarely corrected.
How can you learn lang if no one tells you when you are wrong
The segmentation problem - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- How do children know where and
when words end?
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