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How is spoken language acquired

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Without specific instruction and becomes automatic it requires little attention and we are able to do things like walking and talking

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What is required to produce an effective language

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Physical cognitive and social skills

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What is onomatopoeia

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The formation of a word from a sound

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What are phonoesthemes

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What’s the sound as they mean such as flap Flee flick fling

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What are phonemes

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The smallest unit of sounds

Categories determined by aspects of the local tractor including lips teeth and tongue placement vibration of vocal chords opening and closing of our throat and other manipulations

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Morphemes?

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Smallest unit of meaning in language

Many are whole words and others are parts of words

Adding something that creates additional meaning and is created by stringing Phenomes together

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What is syntax?

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Grammatical rules for ordering words and modifying words

Allows us to altar surface structure but maintain deep structure

Set of rules of the language by which we construct sentences

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What are semantics?

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Literal meaning of morphemes, words and sentences

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Pragmatics

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The way language is used and understood in every day life

Literal meaning is not always the intended one for example my door is always open

Not a part of language that plays a critical role in interpreting it

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Non-verbal communication?

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Can speak louder than words through body language and gestures facial expressions and vocalisations

These can be culturally influenced

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What is early language learning (before birth)

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Infant start hearing language after about five months in the womb newborns can recognise their mothers voice and native language

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What is babbling

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Intentional but meaningless vocalisation.

This is when babies make basic sounds

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At what age do babies understand their own name

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Approximately six months

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When do babies understand other words

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9 to 12 months

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When do babies start saying their first words

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Approximately 12 months

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How many words roughly can a baby say between 12 and 18 months old

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20 to 100 words

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What happens between 18 and 24 months of age to a babies vocabulary

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There is a vocabulary explosion and by 24 months several hundred words are known

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How many words does a baby know at 48 months

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Several thousand

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What are some early linguistic errors in phonemes

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Children produce words in perfectly at first production constraints rather than lack of knowledge

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What are some early linguistic errors with semantics

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Hard to learn exactly what words mean

Overgeneralisation and under generalisation

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Does the real world follow syntax perfectly

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No very rarely

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Why do babies babble

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They are practising producing phonemes

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Does learning have a critical period

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There is a suggested sensitive period of up to 7 years

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How do babies learn that their production of phonemes is good

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When they get it right they get reinforced by their parents

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What is the development of extra linguistic communication life
The development is more gradual 24 months they can use the speakers looking and pointing to help their understanding as well as their emotional tone
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What is the development of syntax like
By two years old they can put two words together in the right order they can understand basic syntax rules before they can display them The number of words they can put together gradually increase
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What’s benefits does learning another language have
It creates a heightened linguistic insight awareness of how language is structured and used
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What are dialects
Language variations used by groups of people who share geographical proximity or ethnic background
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Why is it harder for adults to learn a new language?
They don’t start off super basic like babbling etc.
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What is sign language
It is a complete language system that is visual rather than auditory
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Are signs iconic or arbitrary
Some are iconic but many arbitrary which means that they are based on random choice
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Which brain areas are activated during sign language
Some brain areas that are involved in processing spoken languages are activated in sign languages
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How do you deaf babies begin to learn sign language
They show the same stages of language learning is hearing babies they babble with their hands and acquire their first signs
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What Are the theories of language acquisition
Imitation and learning theories Nativist theories Social pragmatic and social interactionist theories General cognitive processing theories
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What is the imitation and learning theory
Skinner Language learned through imitation and classical and operant conditioning Parents model words phrases and shape through reinforcement
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What are the critiques of the imitation and learning theory
Children generate new words/combinations Parents tend to reinforce correct meaning, not correct grammar
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What is the nativist theory
Chomsky and Pinker Children come into the world knowing how language works Language acquisition device - brain organ that houses rules for acquiring language
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Limitations of the nativist theory?
Syntax is learned very slowly. Descriptive: doesn’t actually explain how it occurs or generate testable hypothesis
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What is the social pragmatic theory?
Particular aspects of the social environment structure language learning. Infant directed speech Grammatical feedback Joint attention Social interaction
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What are the limitations of social pragmatic theory
Social cues may be more difficult to use then theory assumes or other non-social cues may be used
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What is the general cognitive processing theory
Learning language is just like learning anything else The ability to perceive learn and recognise patterns is enough to learn language
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What are the criticisms to the general cognitive processing theory
Children are better than adults are learning language but not everything else There are distinct cognitive processes and brain activation that occurs during language processing meaning that there is something special about language acquisition
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Which of the learning theories are the best
Only the social pragmatic and general cognitive processing theory are currently testable
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How do animals communicate
When animals communicate they behave in a way that sends a signal about important information to others
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Are there any differences between different animal species in communication
Different animal species different in types and complexity of communication systems Often to do with aggression and sex
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Can animals communicate beyond sex and aggression
Some animals can say more Bees dance to tell its mates where to find food this is body language Monkeys share specific alarm calls for different predators
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Explain reading in skilled adults
It takes years to achieve but it becomes automatic we can’t not read things and example of this is the stroop task
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How do children learn to read
First the child must understand the written words hold meaning it has a direction and is divided into words They must understand that each grapheme has its own phoneme and extract sounds in meetings from the graphical shapes
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Why is English one of the hardest alphabetical systems to learn
Because there are so many inconsistencies
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What is the dual route model of reading
Whole word route: - whole word recognition - familiar and irregular Phonetic route: - phonetic decomposition: graphemes translates into phonemes - unfamiliar and non-words Involves sounding out words by figuring out the correspondence between the print letters and sounds
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What is the most efficient way to teach somebody to read
Instead of teaching whole word reading it is better to teach phonics
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What is mental lexicon
The mental store of information about words The mental lexicon is defined as a mental dictionary that contains information regarding a word's meaning, pronunciation, syntactic characteristics, and so on.
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How does the temporal region organise words
It’s sort out nouns- persons animals and tools
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What is wernickes area and what role does it play
Role in speech comprehension Damage causes receptive aphasia When you have poor comprehension speech sounds normal but has no meaning
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Where does speech production occur
Broca’s area Damage leads to expressive aphasia Damage to this area leads to normal comprehension speech is meaningful but awkward and it is difficult to get across what you want to communicate
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What is the wernicke-geschwind model
How both of the areas for language production and language comprehension work together to process language in the brain
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What does language being generative mean?
It is a system that allows us to create an infinite number of sentences etc

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