SLP
Forensic Linguistics
Genie
Speech Communities
Research Issues
100

This is what SLP stands for.

What is Speech Language Pathology?

100
Identify a possible piece of written evidence that could be studied by a forensic linguist.

What is a:  ransom note, suicide letter, threatening letter, etc.?

100
The family members (by relationship, not name) with whom Genie lived before she was removed from her original home.  

What is her father, mother and possibly brother?

100
A language variety spoken by a group of people.

What is a dialect?

100

The term for inappropriately using someone's language or ideas as one's own.  

What is plagiarism?

200

Those who work on hearing issues are called this.

What are audiologists?

200

The field of linguistics that would be most useful in determining if suspect's oral recording sample contained speech from Australia or the United States:  semantics, pragmatics, phonetics

What is phonetics?

200

The U.S. State where Genie was born and lived.  

What is California?

200

Phonetic variability found in speakers of a language.

What is accent?

200
Research is supposed to be _______, which means they are genuine in the sense that they represent what you think they represent.  

What is valid?

300
Name something that can cause aphasia.

What is:  a stroke, tumor, infection, fall, gunshot, stabbing, sports injury, etc.?

300

The term for (usually) written language that must be simplified for the average reader.  

What is legalese?

300

The age at which Genie was found.  

What is 13?

300
An approach to grammar analysis that is evaluative rather than descriptive.
What is prescriptive?
300

Research is supposed to be _______, in that the findings can be duplicated in repeated testing.  

What is reliable?

400

Two areas of the brain involved in language.  

What are Broca and Wernicke?

400

The name of a university in New York where someone can study forensic linguistics.

What is Hofstra University?

400

A name of one of the researchers or therapists who worked on Genie's case.  

What is Jeanne Butler, David and Marilyn Rigler, or Susan Curtiss?

400

The most highly valued form of English.  

What is standard English?

400

A series of experiments that test a method's ability to obtain the correct answer using a database for which we know the correct answers is called this.

What is validation testing?

500
The medical term for ringing in the ear.

What is tinnitus?

500

The words represented by the acronym IAFL.

What is the International Associate of Forensic Linguistics?

500

The name of the "feral" boy found in France many years prior to Genie.  

What is Victor?

500

Saying "Please give it to John or I" or "I like that dog whom is walking over there" are forms of this linguistic behavior.

What is hypercorrection?

500

What research section is missing in this outline? Abstract, Previous Research, Participants, Context, Method of Data Collection, Method of Data Analysis, Implications for Future Research, Limitations, References.  

What are the Findings?

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