CSD 240 Exam 1 – study guide and exam preparation material
metalinguistic awareness - correct answer ✔✔ability to think about language itself and what
words are
communicative competence - correct answer ✔✔ability to use language appropriately in many
different situations
linguistic competence - correct answer ✔✔have the phonology, morphology, syntax, and
semantics of language
communicative intent - correct answer ✔✔-purpose behind what you're saying
specific language impairment - correct answer ✔✔issues in language development with NO
other physical, sensory, or emotional difficulties
decontextualized language - correct answer ✔✔language not tied to the here and now
dyslexia - correct answer ✔✔reading issue in which the individual flips letters
phoneme - correct answer ✔✔-sounds
-smallest linguistic unit that can signal a change in meaning
-regarded as all the same by speakers of the same language
phonolgy - correct answer ✔✔study of the description of patterns of sounds that occur in
language
morpheme - correct answer ✔✔smallest unit of meaning in language
,free morphemes - correct answer ✔✔independent morphemes that can stand alone
bound morphemes - correct answer ✔✔-morphemes that cannot stand alone
-attach to free morphemes (suffixes, prefixes, infixes)
derivational morphemes - correct answer ✔✔-morphemes that change the word's meaning or
part of speech
-ly, un-
inflectional morpheme - correct answer ✔✔morpheme that does not change meaning, but
modifies the free morpheme to fit grammatical structure
(she walks vs I walk)
lexicon - correct answer ✔✔mental dictionary
syntax - correct answer ✔✔rules to combine words into acceptable phrases and sentences
habituation - correct answer ✔✔the diminishing response to a frequently repeated stimulus
segmentation - correct answer ✔✔-the ability to break up fluent speech into individual words
-necessary in order to relate an object to a word
pragmatics - correct answer ✔✔the social use of language
Gricean Cooperative Principles - correct answer ✔✔1) Quantity: don't say to much/to little
2) Quantity: tell the truth
, 3) Relevance: contribute relative info to the conversation
4) Manner: be direct, logical and avoid ambiguity
violations to the Gricean Cooperation Principles - correct answer ✔✔-has intent (can be
sarcasm)
registers - correct answer ✔✔different ways of speaking in different social situations
joint attention - correct answer ✔✔paying attention to the same thing
prosody - correct answer ✔✔intonation
segmental information - correct answer ✔✔single segments of speech (consonants, vowels)
suprasegmental information - correct answer ✔✔stress (in words) and intonation (in
sentences), sits above the word/sentence
Bosch and Sebastian Galles Experiment - correct answer ✔✔language specific listening in
bilingual children (Catalan vs. Spanish)
-4 mo. all babies could distinguish between the sounds
-8 mo. neither Spanish speakers nor bilingual babies could distinguish the Catalan sound
-12 mo. bilingual babies regain the ability to distinguish the sound
canonical babbling - correct answer ✔✔sequences of vowels and consonants
reduplicative babbling - correct answer ✔✔sequences of the same syllables "mamamama"
metalinguistic awareness - correct answer ✔✔ability to think about language itself and what
words are
communicative competence - correct answer ✔✔ability to use language appropriately in many
different situations
linguistic competence - correct answer ✔✔have the phonology, morphology, syntax, and
semantics of language
communicative intent - correct answer ✔✔-purpose behind what you're saying
specific language impairment - correct answer ✔✔issues in language development with NO
other physical, sensory, or emotional difficulties
decontextualized language - correct answer ✔✔language not tied to the here and now
dyslexia - correct answer ✔✔reading issue in which the individual flips letters
phoneme - correct answer ✔✔-sounds
-smallest linguistic unit that can signal a change in meaning
-regarded as all the same by speakers of the same language
phonolgy - correct answer ✔✔study of the description of patterns of sounds that occur in
language
morpheme - correct answer ✔✔smallest unit of meaning in language
,free morphemes - correct answer ✔✔independent morphemes that can stand alone
bound morphemes - correct answer ✔✔-morphemes that cannot stand alone
-attach to free morphemes (suffixes, prefixes, infixes)
derivational morphemes - correct answer ✔✔-morphemes that change the word's meaning or
part of speech
-ly, un-
inflectional morpheme - correct answer ✔✔morpheme that does not change meaning, but
modifies the free morpheme to fit grammatical structure
(she walks vs I walk)
lexicon - correct answer ✔✔mental dictionary
syntax - correct answer ✔✔rules to combine words into acceptable phrases and sentences
habituation - correct answer ✔✔the diminishing response to a frequently repeated stimulus
segmentation - correct answer ✔✔-the ability to break up fluent speech into individual words
-necessary in order to relate an object to a word
pragmatics - correct answer ✔✔the social use of language
Gricean Cooperative Principles - correct answer ✔✔1) Quantity: don't say to much/to little
2) Quantity: tell the truth
, 3) Relevance: contribute relative info to the conversation
4) Manner: be direct, logical and avoid ambiguity
violations to the Gricean Cooperation Principles - correct answer ✔✔-has intent (can be
sarcasm)
registers - correct answer ✔✔different ways of speaking in different social situations
joint attention - correct answer ✔✔paying attention to the same thing
prosody - correct answer ✔✔intonation
segmental information - correct answer ✔✔single segments of speech (consonants, vowels)
suprasegmental information - correct answer ✔✔stress (in words) and intonation (in
sentences), sits above the word/sentence
Bosch and Sebastian Galles Experiment - correct answer ✔✔language specific listening in
bilingual children (Catalan vs. Spanish)
-4 mo. all babies could distinguish between the sounds
-8 mo. neither Spanish speakers nor bilingual babies could distinguish the Catalan sound
-12 mo. bilingual babies regain the ability to distinguish the sound
canonical babbling - correct answer ✔✔sequences of vowels and consonants
reduplicative babbling - correct answer ✔✔sequences of the same syllables "mamamama"
