Subsystems 1
The full name that the acronym IPA stands for
What is the International Phonetic Alphabet?
The subsystem that deals with meaning and may feature fields, domains and jargon
What is semantics?
An early feature of language acquisition which classified as pre-linguistic
What is cooing?
The name of any of the three main theories of language acquisition
What is innatism, interactionism or behaviourism?
A word class which names objects
What is a noun?
An acronym or the 5 words to remember the prosodic features one might analyse in a spoken text
What is VIPST? What are volume, intonation, pitch, stress and tempo?
True/false (not a question response): do all babies have the ability to babble in any language, including deaf babies?
Yes, all babies can babble in any language. Deaf babies can babble with their hands.
A prior name for Skinner's behaviourist theory of language acquisition
What is nurture theory?
A sentence which contains a subject, verb and object only - no conjunctions
What is a simple sentence?
The sentence type which states factual information
What is a declarative sentence?
The typical age range that 2 word utterances occur
What is 18-24 months? What is a year and a half - two years?
Three key reasons that babies learn language
What is practical/get what they want, social/interact, learning/build knowledge?
The full names of all 5 subsystems
What are: Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology and Lexicology, Syntax, Semantics and Discourse Analysis?
A sociolinguistic which discusses the location, year, time, event and other background factors important to a text
What is context?
Yes/no (no question response): are babies who babble 'mama' and 'dada' saying mama and dada (daddy)?
No. Babbling babies do not have a concept of mama and daddy. They are experimenting with vowel-consonant intonation patterns
The name of the language acquisition theory that is a 'blend' of the two other main theories
What is interactionism?
The four content word classes
What are: nouns, adverbs, verbs and adjectives?
A feature of connected speech in which the speaker uses nearby sounds to make the word easier to pronounce, e.g. 'hambag'
What is assimilation?
The stage of language acquisition where babies typically begin to develop function (grammar) words
What is telegraphic/early multiword stage?
Chomsky's innatism theory argues that there is this in the brain that hardwires babies to learn language
What is a language acquisition device?