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11 Cards in this Set
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Characteristics of Language |
Universality (all societies) Uniqueness (human trait) Arbitrariness (words as arbitrary rules) Productivity (infinite combinations) Regularity (Structural rules) |
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Brocas Aphasia |
Language impairment that preserves access to word meaning while impairing grammatical ability
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Morphological rules |
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Syntactic rules |
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mental lexicon
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the “dictionaryin the mind” which contains information about the meanings and syntacticcategories of all the words a person knows.
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grammar |
a system of rulesfor describing a particular language; consists of phonology, morphology, andsyntax. |
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phonology |
Rules for combining sounds into meaningful words phoneme· smallest unit ofspeech sound. |
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morphology |
Rules for combining words and word parts into new words morpheme· smallest part ofa word that carries independent meaning. |
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Syntax |
rules describinghow words may be combined to make acceptable utterances in a given language.
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semantics |
· the study ofmeaning, e.g., the meanings of words and whole sentences. |
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symbol |
· something thatstands for or represents something else, without physically resembling it,i.e., the relation is arbitrary. |
