How the mind acquires and processes language, including child language acquisition and language and the brain.
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- What is psycholinguistics?
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The study of how the mind acquires, comprehends, produces, and stores language.- How do nativist and behaviorist theories differ on language acquisition?
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Nativism proposes innate linguistic structures; behaviorism claims language is learned through conditioning and imitation.- What is the critical period hypothesis?
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Language acquisition is easiest during early childhood and becomes progressively harder after puberty.- Name the typical sequence of phonological development in infants.
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Cooing (2-3 months), babbling (6-9 months), echolalia (9-12 months), first words (12-18 months).- What is overextension in child language?
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Using a word too broadly, applying a newly learned word to more objects or situations than it actually describes.- What is telegraphic speech?
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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?
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Using a learned word too narrowly, applying it to fewer objects or contexts than the word actually describes.- Define lexical access.
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The process of retrieving a word from memory during language comprehension or production.- What is a garden path sentence?
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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?
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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?
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The left hemisphere, which contains regions for language production and comprehension.- What is Broca's area and what does it control?
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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?
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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?
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Agrammatism, anomia, and effortful non-fluent speech with relatively preserved comprehension and awareness of errors.- What is Wernicke's aphasia characterized by?
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Fluent but semantically meaningless speech, poor comprehension, and lack of awareness of errors.
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