LING444 Midterm: LING444 Midterm Review 10_10
30 Jan 2019
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Mutliple choice =15 of them 1 pt each. Fill in= 10 pts, 1 pt each. Short answer, 5 pts, 2. 5 pts each ch-1,2,3,4,7. From no words at birth, to recognizing names by 6 months, understanding words. All knowledge and reason comes from experience. Our mind has some preexisting structure in order to organize experience. Language form is independent of its function. Communication is crucial to shape how a language system is organized. Pidgin- simple grammatically by communication that develops between 2 or more groups that dont have a language in common. Creole- when children learn pidgin they add to it, creating more complex language. Especially creole, when kids learn pidgin they dont have the mature format of a lnaugage system. Children are able to create a lot of linguistic components of a more complex language. Localization of language functions in the brain. Study on the neural processing of language in infants. Joint attention, a child and adult spend time together.
