test 5 Flashcards
(22 cards)
what separates humans form all other animals?
language
what is langiage?
spoken, written or signed words
what are phonemes?
smallest distinctive sound
people who grow up learning 1 set of phonemes usually have difficult???
pronouncing another language
what is a Morpheme?
smallest unit carrying meaning
ex of morpheme?
a word or part of a word
grammar?
system of rules that allows communication with others
semantics?
set of rules that help us see when the event is happening
syntax rules are how do you put words in a sentence ????
that someone else can understand
animals do not follow grammatical rules and therefore do not have ???
-also if you do not have a set of rules then no one can ???
language
-repeat it
if isolated from language during critical period window gradually closes
critical period
deaf children who learned to sign after age 9 are not a good as ???
kids that became death at age 9
babbling stage how many moths???
3-4 months
babbling comes naturally because???
deaf babies babble
what happens at 5 moths?]
ex?
babies read lips and discriminate speech sounds
-ex if the dad always says da da then the baby will associate the word with him
babbling resembles household language?
10 months
can use proper grammar?
2 years
can use regular sentences?
5-7 years
language acquisition device in your brain wants you to learn language
chomsy
when put in school children over ???? (chomsy)
generalize grammar rules
language determines the way we think ?
whorf
we come up with words for society and the more ????
wholf
words we have the better
