8. Cognition

The rhythm and emphasis of communicating is part of which language structure?

The system of rules for combining words and phrases to form grammatically correct sentences is

Five-year old Jordan is seeing a speech therapist in his preschool once a week because he has difficulty saying the 'r' sound in his own name. When he says his name, people think it sounds like 'jaw-dun.' From a language perspective, Jordan is having difficulty with a specific

Piaget noted that preschool children spent a great deal of time talking to themselves, even when playing together, and that the 'conversations' had nothing to do with the speech of the children around them. He called this process

Vygotsky believed that

Three-year-old Jamal is learning how to wait his turn to talk during circle time in preschool. Jamal is learning the _____ of language.

Whorf used the now-famous example of the many words Inuits use for snow to support the

The cognitive universalism theory states that

According to linguist Noam Chomsky, a language acquisition device (LAD) is

Language allows people to _____ and _____.

Researchers have found that animals _____ with one another.

Kanzi, the chimpanzee, communicates with researchers by using

The debate over whether animals use real language centers around

Near the end of one's _____, oil glands in the neck and around the eyes begin to malfunction, contributing to wrinkles in those areas.

In middle age, sexual functioning