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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?

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?

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?

Telegraphic Signup and view all the answers

What are the 2 principles of the garden-path model of parsing?

Minimal Attachment and Late Closure Signup and view all the answers

What is pragmatics?

Considering the context to determine what is meant, not just what is said. Signup and view all the answers

Deep dyslexia negatively affects the...

Non-lexical route Signup and view all the answers

Morton's Logogen Model is...

Parallel and doesn't have word-to-letter feedback Signup and view all the answers

'Sadhia doesn't like cats as much as horsies': has how many morphemes?

10 Signup and view all the answers

The Language Acquisition Devise was created by which approach?

Nativist Signup and view all the answers