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What is noun-category bias?
What is noun-category bias?
- More speech errors are made with nouns than verbs.
- Nouns are easier to learn after the critical age period.
- Infants first learn nouns as they as conceptually easier to understand. (correct)
- Nouns are significantly more present in pidgin languages.
Why does Pinker criticise language determinism?
Why does Pinker criticise language determinism?
- Circular logic: if language constrains emotion, how did we feel the emotion needed for for the word before the word was invented. (correct)
- He doesn't.
- Determinism fallacy: words describing emotions can exist unique to a language but people of other languages can also feel that emotion.
- fMRI data shows emotion activated more by memory of emotion that an emotional word does, therefore language is not that powerful.
What are 3 characteristics unique to human language, according to Hockett?
What are 3 characteristics unique to human language, according to Hockett?
- Productivity, Arbitrariness and Total Feedback
- Traditional Transmission, Displacement and Total Feedback
- Displacement, Productivity and Discreteness
- Traditional Transmission, Productivity and Displacement (correct)
What is the fourth stage of language development?
What is the fourth stage of language development?
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What are the 2 principles of the garden-path model of parsing?
What are the 2 principles of the garden-path model of parsing?
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What is pragmatics?
What is pragmatics?
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Deep dyslexia negatively affects the...
Deep dyslexia negatively affects the...
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Morton's Logogen Model is...
Morton's Logogen Model is...
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'Sadhia doesn't like cats as much as horsies': has how many morphemes?
'Sadhia doesn't like cats as much as horsies': has how many morphemes?
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The Language Acquisition Devise was created by which approach?
The Language Acquisition Devise was created by which approach?
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