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__________ take a variety of forms including images, ideas, and concepts, and principles
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Mental representations
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Consists of a system of symbols and rules for combining these symbols in ways that can produce an almost infinite number of possible messages or meanings.
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Language
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What are the 3 critical properties that are essential to any language?
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Symbolic, structured, generative
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_______ refers to the fact that past, future, and imaginary events and objects that are not physically present can be symbollically represented and communicated through the medium of language
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Displacement
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The _______ refers to the way symbols are combined within a given language
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Surface structure
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The rules for certain combinations of symbols within a given language are called ____________
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Syntax
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________ refers to the underlying meaning of the combined symbols.
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Deep Structure
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The rules for connecting the symbols to what they represent are known as _______
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Semantics
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_____ are the smallest units of sound that are recognized as separate in a given language
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Phonemes
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The smallest units of meaning in language are known as ______
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Morphemes
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Language is most easily learned during infancy to puberty aka the ________
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Sensitive period
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Area of the brain involved in speech production
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Brocas area
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Area of the brain involved in speech comprehension
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Wernickes area
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By the second year of life, children are uttering two word sentences, that consist of a noun and a verb called ______
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Telegraphic speech
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A hypothesis that states that language not only influences thought but determines it
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Linguistic Relativity hypothesis
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