Psy/Ling 301 Intro to Psycholinguistics Terms and Concepts to
review, exam 3
Please note: This is not a complete set of terms and
concepts, but it does cover many of the issues that were discussed in the book
and in the lectures.
Early Language Acquisition
Prelinguistic
communication (Do we learn in the womb?)
Motherese
Development
of Comunicative Intent: Assertions
and Requests
The development of speech
perception
Categorical
perception in infants
The
role of language experience in speech perception
The stages of language
development
Prelinguistic
vocalizations
Babbling
(reduplicated and variegated)
One
word stage
Frequent
early words
Holophrases
Referential
learning: Overextension and
Underextensions
The
role of the caregiver's speech
Cognitive
constraints on lexical development
Whole
object bias, Taxonomic bias, Mutual exclusivity bias
Two
word stage
The
development of grammar
Mean
length of utterances in morphemes (MLUs)
Semantic
Bootstrapping
Individual
differences in child langue development
Referential
vs. expressive strategies
Later stages of language
acquistion
The
acquisition of grammatical morphemes and The order that grammar is learned
Productivity
in morphology
Overregularizations
Crosslinguistic
differences in grammar development
Processes in Language
Development
Environmental,
cognitive and Innate conditions
Feral
and Isoloated Children; Victor,
the Wild Boy of Aveyron, Genie
Innate
mechanisms in language acquisitions
Language
Biogram hypothesis
Pidgin
and Creole languages
Parameter
setting
Negative
evidence
Second language
acquisition
Principles
and parameters interpretation
Cognitive
processes interpretation
Learning to read
Prerequisites
to reading
Early
readers vs. late readers
Methods
of teaching reading (whole word vs. phonics)
Top-down
vs. bottom up processing
Speed
reading
Biological foundations of
language
Wernicke's,
Broca's, and Conduction Aphasia
The
role of syntax and semantics in aphasias
Other
approaches to studying the brain: MRI,
PET scans
Lateralization and Language
Split
brain research
Differences
between left and right hemispheres
Language and Thought
Sapir-
Whorf hypothesis
Linguistic
Relativity
Linguistic
Determinism
Framing
Codability