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Communication
Communication
This property of human language refers to the ability to create an infinite number of unique sentences.
What is creativity/productivity?
The omission of the last consonant in a word refers to this phonological process.
Nonfluent aphasia results from damage to the IFG, also known as this.
What is Broca's area?
This is a group of people who all speak the same dialect.
What is a speech community?
This type of speech act commits the speaker to an action that the hearer does not want.
What is a threat?
This species' language system is referred to as a discrete combinatorial system.
What is human?
A baby verbalizing "babababa" is demonstrating this type of babbling.
What is reduplicated/canonical?
The right motor cortex controlling the left side of the body is referred to as this.
What is contralateralization?
When many different isoglosses fall in approximately the same location (or separate the same group of speakers), they form this.
What is an isogloss bundle?
This occurs when the literal meaning of a statement differs from its intended meaning, such as using "Can you pass the salt?" to request action rather than question ability.
What are indirect speech acts?
The direction of the waggle dance of bees represents the orientation of the food source, making it this type of communication.
What is iconic?
A child who is speaking in single words and understands more words than they use is in this stage of language development.
What is first words stage?
Following a TBI, an individual speaks fluently, but incomprehensibly. They are likely suffering from this.
What is Wernicke's Aphasia?
When the same word means different things in different language varieties.
What is semantic variation?
This term refers to words or expressions, like "here," "now," or "you," whose meaning depends on the context.
What are deictics?
This term refers to the ability to communicate about things not in the here and now.
What is displacement?
Someone who learns a language at home from birth and then learns another language at daycare starting at 6 months is referred to as this type of bilingual language learner.
What is simultaneous?
This is the ability of the brain to adapt to damage and retrain areas.
What is neural plasticity?
A speaker chooses to differ from the standard and assimilate to a different non-standard language variety.
What is covert prestige?
This principle suggests speakers should provide the right amount of relevant, truthful, and clear information in conversation.
What is Grice's Cooperative Principle?
Vervet monkey calls are not inherently linked to each predator and display this property of human language.
What is symbolic/arbitrary?
A child who is learning to form longer sentences, has about 2000 words, and uses morphological overgeneralization is in this stage of language development.
What is preschool?
This is the part of the brain that converts visual stimuli into linguistic information.
What is the angular gyrus?
The use of "habitual be" is a feature of what English dialect?
What is African American English?
This refers to the setting or environment that helps determine the meaning of words during communication.
What is situational context?