Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Language Acquisition Device, Language Acquisition, Testis Determining Factor

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

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Psyc 1000 march midterm study guide: answers. What are the five properties of language: grammar, syntax, semanticity, displacement, generatively. Surface structure: the organization and order of words. Deep structure: the deeper meaning of what you"re saying. Smoking volcanoes can be detrimental to your health. examples to each type. Bottom up: start by looking at patterns then move to syllables and then a general principle. Reading the bead store to the bread store . Phoneme -> morpheme -> words -> phrases -> sentences -> discourse. Languages have been taught to chimps, but they have no real syntax or propositional thought. Wernicke"s: language acquisition support system: what is the difference between the language acquisition device and the language. Language acquisition device: innate biological mechanism that contains the general grammatical rules (common to all languages) Language acquisition support system: factors in the social environment that facilitate the learning of a language.