Module 36

1.  our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning

• language

• phoneme

• morpheme

• linguistic determinism

2. in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit

• phoneme

• morpheme

• grammar

• syntax

3.  in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix)

• morpheme

• phoneme

• syntax

• grammar

4.  in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others

• grammar

• syntax

• linguistic determinism

• aphasia

5. beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language

• babbling stage

• one-word stage

• two-word stage

• telegraphic speech

6. the stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words

• babbling stage

• one-word stage

• two-word stage

• telegraphic speech

7. beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in two-word statements

• babbling stage

• one-word stage

• two-word stage

• telegraphic speech

8. impairment of language, usually caused by left-hemisphere damage either to Broca’s area or to Wernicke’s area

• aphasia

• Broca's Area

• Wernicke's Area

• linguistic determinism

9. early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram—“go car”—using mostly nouns and verbs

• Babbling stage

• one-word staae

• two-word stage

• telegraphic speech

10. controls language expression—an area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere, that directs the muscle movements involved in speech

• Broca's area

• Wernicke's area

• hippocampus

• hypothalamus