How the mind acquires and processes language, including child language acquisition and language and the brain.
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- What is psycholinguistics?
- The study of how the mind acquires, comprehends, produces, and stores language.
- How do nativist and behaviorist theories differ on language acquisition?
- Nativism proposes innate linguistic structures; behaviorism claims language is learned through conditioning and imitation.
- What is the critical period hypothesis?
- Language acquisition is easiest during early childhood and becomes progressively harder after puberty.
- Name the typical sequence of phonological development in infants.
- Cooing (2-3 months), babbling (6-9 months), echolalia (9-12 months), first words (12-18 months).
- What is overextension in child language?
- Using a word too broadly, applying a newly learned word to more objects or situations than it actually describes.
- What is telegraphic speech?
- Early utterances that omit function words and include primarily content words, such as 'mama go' instead of 'mama is going.'
- What is underextension in child language?
- Using a learned word too narrowly, applying it to fewer objects or contexts than the word actually describes.
- Define lexical access.
- The process of retrieving a word from memory during language comprehension or production.
- What is a garden path sentence?
- A sentence that initially seems to have one grammatical structure but is later revealed to have a different structure, causing processing difficulty.
- What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
- The temporary inability to retrieve a known word despite feeling certain that the word is stored in memory.
- Which hemisphere is language-dominant in most people?
- The left hemisphere, which contains regions for language production and comprehension.
- What is Broca's area and what does it control?
- A region in the left frontal lobe that controls language production; damage results in non-fluent speech but relatively preserved comprehension.
- What is Wernicke's area and what does it control?
- A region in the left temporal lobe that processes language comprehension; damage results in fluent but nonsensical speech and poor comprehension.
- What is Broca's aphasia characterized by?
- Agrammatism, anomia, and effortful non-fluent speech with relatively preserved comprehension and awareness of errors.
- What is Wernicke's aphasia characterized by?
- Fluent but semantically meaningless speech, poor comprehension, and lack of awareness of errors.