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P.4.11 Describe language development in humans.

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P.4.11 Describe language development in humans.

by Lance Hiles
1

All children around the world would go through _____ _____ of language development , if Noam Chomsky's theory is correct.

  
  
2

Since babies acquire language faster than other skills, Noam Chomsky argued that babies have an _____ _____ to learn language. It is inherited from their parents.

  
  
3

When a baby makes sounds like an adult, that behavior is reinforced through _____ and _____ , according to B.F. Skinner. This is how behaviorists explain language development.

  
  
4

If a patient has _____ problems, a researcher can use a Magnetic Resonance Image machine and locate the region of the brain that is affected, then compare those findings to the brain of a healthy person.

5

The meaning of words based on their context is referred to as _____ , which is why the word "lie" can mean falsehood or resting position.

6

The rules for sentence structure differ between languages (such as Spanish and English), and we call these rules _____ .

7

“Tag” & “Dis-” are examples of a _____ , which is the smallest unit of meaning in ANY language.

8

The smallest unit of sound in ANY language is a _____ , and there are one hundred different types, including ALL vowels and consonants.

9

Language is used to express emotion & solve problems, but the most familiar function of language is to communicate ideas and facts, or the most familiar function is _____ .

10

We use language when we are _____ , or problem solving, or just talking internally to ourselves. .

11

_____ takes place in all languages around the world, regardless of culture, and it is the first stage of language development.

12

Deaf children learn to babble by using _____ _____ , just like children who can hear learn to babble by using sounds.

  
  
13

66% of children grow up bilingual in the world, and they learn their two languages just as quickly as a child who learns one _____ .

14

The Gardners taught Washoe one hundred and sixty American _____ _____ signs , even though Washoe only had the mental skills of a two-year old human.

  
  
15

Chimpanzees cannot use _____ rules, while humans use these regularly and without effort. Chimpanzees can, however, use symbols in language.

16

Our language can affect our perception of the _____ _____ , at least Benjamin Whorf thought so. He believed that people who speak Japanese think differently than people who speak German.

  
  
17

Americans have many words for the concept of "time" because the concept of "time" is very important in a capitalist society. This is an example of language influencing thoughts, otherwise known as _____ _____ .

  
  
18

Russian & German use nouns that are neuter, and French, Spanish, & Italian have feminine & masculine nouns. These are examples of a language using grammatical _____ .

19

It is curious that _____ are not differentiated by sex in the English language, while parents, siblings, aunts/uncles, and grandparents are differentiated by sex.

20

You are more capable of keeping track of where you are, if you are a speaker of _____ direction languages, rather than a speaker of relative terms languages.

 
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