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| Speech production in the left frontal lobe |
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| Language/speech understanding |
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| Generative, Rule bound, and can have Non-Instrumental use |
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| for children is about 18 months to adolescence for learning language |
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| Voicing, place of articulation, manner of articulation |
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| Single speech sounds represented by a single symbol |
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| a or z; use of vibration of the vocal cords |
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| "s" in hiss; sounds that do not use vocal cords |
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| Sounds made by restricting the air passage in the mouth; include sh, f, v, and th |
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| Sounds produced by interrupting the flow of air for a brief period; "t" and "d" |
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Smallest unit of meaning in the language; can be words, parts of words, prefixes, suffices, or combination.
Can be free or bound |
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| Sentence is grammatically correct but has no meaning -> Colorless green ideas sleep furiously |
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| Represents the overall meaning of what is being said, relies on the lower levels but represents the ultimate goal of a language |
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| Rules that govern the combination of morphemes in phrases and sentences. Includes how information can be transformed from one form to another. |
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| Set of rules that governs the regularity of language. Regularity being the systematic nature of the sentences, phrases or utterances. |
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| Chomsky's Theory of Grammar |
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Language has uniformity -> Gramatical Rules
Language is a generative system that can produce unlimited utterances -> Novelty
Language is special in that it is innate because there is a univeral underlying structure |
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| Details the laws that govern transformation from surface structure to deep structure. |
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| Specific word and word order that you use to convey the information |
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| Semantic representation which captures the meaning that we want to convey. Not actual language but abstract representation. |
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| biological learning ability to master grammatical rules in the community in which we are born. Syntax/Grammar is innate but the morphology is based on the community (french, spanish, etc.) |
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| Linguistic-Relativity hypothesis |
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| also "Whorf hypothesis" that physical realtity is translated, according to some internal representation of reality into a perception that is consistent with long-time cognitive strucutres. |
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| Thinking is "sub-vocal speehc" that use the same muscular response apparatus used in speech. S-R psychoogy |
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