COGNI (Language)
Cards (132)
- What is language primarily used for?
- What enables us to express feelings and thoughts?
- What are the two properties of language that enhance communication?
- How does the hierarchical nature of language function?
- What can words be combined to create?
- Why is the rule-based nature of language important?
- What is an example of a permissible sentence in English?
- What does the term "universal" refer to in language use?
- What do deaf children invent when no language is present?
- What do all humans with normal capacities develop?
- How do people typically feel about studying grammar?
- How many different languages exist across cultures?
- What did European explorers discover in New Guinea?
- What is similar about language development across cultures?
- What is meant by "unique but the same" in languages?
- What are the functions of nouns and verbs in all languages?
- What did Paul Broca propose about language production?
- What is Wernicke's area responsible for?
- What did B. F. Skinner propose about language learning?
- What did Noam Chomsky argue about human language?
- What was a key argument against behaviorism by Chomsky?
- What is the goal of psycholinguistics?
- What are the four major concerns of psycholinguistics?
- What does comprehension in psycholinguistics involve?
- What does representation in psycholinguistics refer to?
- What does speech production encompass?
- What does acquisition in psycholinguistics study?
- What is the lexicon?
- What is semantics in language?
- What does word frequency refer to?
- What is the word frequency effect?
- What is a lexical decision task?
- What did Rayner and Duffy measure in their experiment?
- Why do readers have longer fixations on low-frequency words?
- What is the pronunciation of words like?
- How do people often pronounce words in casual conversation?
- What is speech segmentation?
- What influences understanding of spoken words?
- What is lexical ambiguity?
- What did the Tanenhaus experiment measure?