Chapter 1 Part 3 Flashcards
Language that focuses on the immediate context
Contextualized
Has little reliance on context; don’t need context in the immediate environment that is needed to communicate
Decontextualized
What are the 5 domains of language?
Phonology, morphology, pragmatics, semantics, syntax
Rules of a language governing the sounds that makes syllables and words
Phonology
General American English has ___ phonemes
39
The rules of language governing the internal organization of words; allows use to expand vocabulary exponentially by using a small core of words and to add specificity to language
Morphology
What are some examples of grammatical morphemes?
Plural -s, possessive ‘s, past tense -ed, etc.
Governs the internal organization of sentences; rules we use to create a sentence
Syntax
Governs the meaning of individual words and word combinations; allows us to know the meanings of words, how many meanings a word may have, whether meanings are literal or figurative
Semantics
Our vocabulary system
Lexicon
Governs the language use for social purposes; using language for different functions or intentions, organizing language for discourse, knowing what to say and when and how to say it
Pragmatics
What is a synonym for social communication?
Pragmatics
What domains of language are part of form?
Morphology, phonology, syntax
What domains of language are part of use?
Pragmatics
What domains of language are part of content?
Semantics
A clinician is asking a child to verbally label using a single words to determine if they know the object/concept. What domain of language is this?
Semantics
A teacher is teaching the students to turn verbs into present progressive -ing verb forms. What domain of language is this?
Morphology
A child’s goal reads “will correctly ask ‘wh’ questions”. What domain of language is this?
Pragmatics
At what age do children begin to understand and use several words?
1 year
At what age do children have a vocabulary of several hundred words and can combine them into short sentences?
2 years
Suggests that all persons around the world apply the same cognitive infrastructure to learning language; the way children learn language and the time frames for milestones are relatively invariant across the globe
Universality
Complexity of human language far exceeds even the most sophisticated non-human primates
Species specificity
Allows people to represent events that are decontextualized to share what happened before this moment or that may happen in the future; allows people to represent the world to others
Semanticity/displacement
Principle of combination; that a small number of discrete units can be combined into seemingly infinite creations; you can produce a sentence no one has ever uttered
Productivity
