It's All in Your Head
The part of the brain that controls the articulatory muscles.
What is the motor cortex?
Chilly/brisk or happy/cheerful have this semantic relationship.
What are synonyms?
These are dialects that are determined by geographical boundaries.
What are regional?
This is the period from birth to puberty when it is easiest to learn a language.
What is the critical period?
Mutually intelligible forms of a language that differ in systematic ways.
What are dialects?
Type of listening test used to help understand language processing.
What is dichotic?
Flour & Flower and Sell & Cell are examples of this phenomenon.
What are homophones?
Type of dialects that are marked by gender, socioeconomic status, or race.
What are social?
The simplified speech style used when we speak to babies.
What is Motherese or care-giver speech?
A contact language that develops between communities with no shared language.
What is a pidgin?
The area of the brain that comprehends language.
What is Wernicke's?
The type of antonyms represented by: happy/sad or easy/hard.
What are gradable pairs?
The type of differences between: highway, freeway, & expressway.
What are lexical?
The Wug test was designed to study this aspect of language acquisition.
What is morphology?
The abbreviation for the dominant (prestige) dialect in America.
What is SAE?
The type of methods used to study how the brain processes language.
What are indirect?
When you accidentally say "a poffee pot" instead of "a coffee pot."
What is anticipation?
The type of differences between saying 'car' & 'cah.'
What are phonological?
The stage of language acquisition that is represented by: "outside more" or "baby sad."
What is telegraphic?
An accommodation to one's speech to sound more similar to the people they are talking to.
Aphasia in this area results in effortful, reduced, and distorted articulation.
What is Broca's Area?
When you accidentally say Go shake a tower instead of Go take a shower.
What is a spoonerism?
The type of regional differences that are marked by using double modals or double negatives. i.e. I might could eat another piece of pie.
What are syntactic?
The process of rule acquisition that is illustrated when a child makes errors such as "goed" or "2 feets."
What is overgeneralization?
Changing one's speech from "What's up?" to "How are you today?"
What is style shifting?