PSYC 2314 - Blinn Final Exam (Jones)
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phonemes - ✔✔individual speech sounds; more of these than there are letters;
each language has different ones; as you get older, you lose plasticity of being
able to hear/make all the different sounds
speech problems - ✔✔boys have more ______ ______ than girls; 5:1
grammar - ✔✔morphology, syntax and semantics
morphemes - ✔✔smallest unit of speech with identifiable meaning; "I," "dogs,"
"walked" <-- the "s" shows it is plural, and the "-ed"shows it is past tense
syntax - ✔✔sequencing of words to make sense
semantics - ✔✔using a symbol to stand for something else; meaning and
abstract meaning - knowing that a particular word stands for a certain things;
affected by context and inflection
ex: "apple" is a fruit
surface structure - ✔✔words in sequence
deep structure - ✔✔meaning you take from the sentence, based on context,
expectations
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, Roger Brown - ✔✔researcher who said that there are 3 different characteristics
to "true language": productivity, displacement and semantics
Productivity (Generativity) - ✔✔make up own sentence and own words, not just
copying others; Chimps showed this with sign language abilities
Displacement (Decontextualization) - ✔✔can talk about things in the
past/hypothetically; found Koko the Gorilla could recall past events (biting her
caregiver) she used it to distort past/present (Ex: I wasn't eating the crayon, I
was putting on lipstick)
Inner Language - ✔✔0-9 months; realizing multiple objects can have the same
label/symbol. Tested by showing different pictures of animals and furniture,
then organizing in groups based on category --> if they don't recognize the
categories, they will group randomly.
Receptive Language - ✔✔9 months +; (language comprehension), start listening
to other people's labels and understanding; can understand things about 1 year
before they are able to speak
Expressive Language - ✔✔(linguistic production); 1st word between 1 yr and 1.5
yrs, not indicator of being a good communicator
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Exam Questions with 100% Correct
Answers
phonemes - ✔✔individual speech sounds; more of these than there are letters;
each language has different ones; as you get older, you lose plasticity of being
able to hear/make all the different sounds
speech problems - ✔✔boys have more ______ ______ than girls; 5:1
grammar - ✔✔morphology, syntax and semantics
morphemes - ✔✔smallest unit of speech with identifiable meaning; "I," "dogs,"
"walked" <-- the "s" shows it is plural, and the "-ed"shows it is past tense
syntax - ✔✔sequencing of words to make sense
semantics - ✔✔using a symbol to stand for something else; meaning and
abstract meaning - knowing that a particular word stands for a certain things;
affected by context and inflection
ex: "apple" is a fruit
surface structure - ✔✔words in sequence
deep structure - ✔✔meaning you take from the sentence, based on context,
expectations
1|Page
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, Roger Brown - ✔✔researcher who said that there are 3 different characteristics
to "true language": productivity, displacement and semantics
Productivity (Generativity) - ✔✔make up own sentence and own words, not just
copying others; Chimps showed this with sign language abilities
Displacement (Decontextualization) - ✔✔can talk about things in the
past/hypothetically; found Koko the Gorilla could recall past events (biting her
caregiver) she used it to distort past/present (Ex: I wasn't eating the crayon, I
was putting on lipstick)
Inner Language - ✔✔0-9 months; realizing multiple objects can have the same
label/symbol. Tested by showing different pictures of animals and furniture,
then organizing in groups based on category --> if they don't recognize the
categories, they will group randomly.
Receptive Language - ✔✔9 months +; (language comprehension), start listening
to other people's labels and understanding; can understand things about 1 year
before they are able to speak
Expressive Language - ✔✔(linguistic production); 1st word between 1 yr and 1.5
yrs, not indicator of being a good communicator
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©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
