College 5

Question 1

What is the definition of a word?

Answer 1

a conventional form-meaning pairing where a fixed form represents the same meaning in different context

Question 2

What are 2 fundamental features of language?

Answer 2

Arbitrariness and iconicity

Question 3

Which 2 types of fixed forms are there?

Answer 3

phonemes and morphemes

Question 4

What is a phoneme?

Answer 4

The smalles sound unit that can change the meaning of a word but has nog lexical meaning itself

Question 5

What is a morpheme?

Answer 5

A bundle of sounds related to systematic meaning

Question 6

What is syntactic bootstrapping?

Answer 6

using the syntactic properties of words to identify and narrow down the aspects of meaning that words likely convey

Question 7

What enhances language learning?

Answer 7

social context, joint attention

Question 8

What are cues to language

Answer 8

language specific characteristics and the relationship between the environment and language

Question 9

What do babies store in their lexical representations?

Answer 9

only necessary phonetic detail

Question 10

What level categroies are there?

Answer 10

basic, superordinate and subordinate

Question 11

What is basic level category

Answer 11

dog

Question 12

what is superordinate level category?

Answer 12

animal

Question 13

What is subordinate level category?

Answer 13

dalmatian

Question 14

How many participants has a intransitive verb?

Answer 14

one

Question 15

how many participants has a transitive verb?

Answer 15

two

Question 16

how many participant has a distransitive verb?

Answer 16

three

Question 17

What does syntactic bootstrapping help children with?

Answer 17

understand the meaning conveyed by word’s syntactic identities

Question 18

What is a morphemes?

Answer 18

the smallest units with systematic meaning and can be combined to form complex words

Question 19

complex words are built trough..?

Answer 19

compouding or affixes

Question 20

what is prefixes?

Answer 20

affixes attached at the front of a word

Question 21

what is suffixes?

Answer 21

affixes attached at the end of the word

Question 22

What is the gavagai problem

Answer 22

when you dont know the meaning of a word you wil try to find it in the context.

Question 23

What is onomatopoeia?

Answer 23

the use of language sound to imitate non-linguistic sounds

Question 24

What are ideophones?

Answer 24

class of words with special linguistic properties in which sounds are used to convey information about sensory information

Question 25

what is iconity?

Answer 25

a property of a symbol where the symbol form has resemblance to the meaning it is intended to communicate

Question 26

what for morphemes are there?

Answer 26

Free morphemes, bound morphemes, monomorphemeic words and polymorphemic words

Question 27

What is dualty of patterning?

Answer 27

language words at two general levels with meaningless units of sounds combingin into meaninful units

Question 28

what is lexical representation?

Answer 28

information that is committed to long therm memory

Question 29

what is associative learning?

Answer 29

learning process by which associations between two stimuli are made as a result of which the two are paired

Question 30

What is the quantity of language?

Answer 30

Strongly correlated with the size of children's vocabulary

Question 31

what is the quality of input?

Answer 31

this affects how children learn words

Question 32

what is connectionist model

Answer 32

a computional model of the paste tense

Question 33

what is contingency with the quality of input?

Answer 33

extent to which a caragiver's response is connected in timing and meanig to the child

Question 34

what is referntial transparancy in the quality of the input?

Answer 34

the degree to which re referent of a word is indicated by clues of the referential context

Question 35

what is auxiliary verb?

Answer 35

category of words that accompany the main verb