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The study of psychology of language is know as?
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Psycholinguistics.
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Language is important because?
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It allows for symbolic expression of thoughts and ideas and is important for determining thought, memory and imagination.
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Basic structure of speech and language is? And what are they?
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Phonemes. Individual vowel and consonant sounds that make up language. "duh-aahh-duh" for "dad"
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Voice-onset time is?
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The delay between starting sound and the movement of the sound through the next vocal cord.
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What are Morphemes?
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The smallest unit of meaning in language. "dog". Free is something that has meaning on its own, while bond is the addition to a part of a word, like "s" or "ed"
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Explain Syntax.
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The way morphemes are arranged into sentences. Like word order (adjectives before nouns) and word class.
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What are function words?
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Words that play a functional role in the grammar of a sentence (the, but, and)
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Words that have meaning, like dog, run, blue are?
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Content words.
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What are Affixes?
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Sounds that we either add to the beginning or end of words to alter their meaning (pre, ing)
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The meaning of a word is know as?
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Semantics. Ex. The sound "too" can mean different things things depending on the semantics of a sentence.
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What is Prosody?
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Refers to the change in pitch that alter the semantics of a word. Ex. "That was great" could be sarcastic or not depending on pitch.
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What is deep structure?
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What someone means. The underlying meaning.
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What is Surface Structure?
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Choice of words. They way they say something.
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Explain what Scripts are.
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They are based on out knowledge of how the world works. They are usually general in nature. Ex. You know that a "gentlemen's club" is not very gentlemanly.
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Where is the Broca's Area Located?
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Front left part of the frontal cortex.
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