Language Contact
This type of language contact occurs when two languages influence each other without speakers interacting directly, often through media or trade.
What is indirect language contact?
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?
When speakers of different languages create a simplified, makeshift language to communicate, it is called this.
What is a pidgin?
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 process happens when a language is no longer spoken by any native speakers, often because people shift to a more dominant language.
What is language death?
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 occurs when a community gradually stops using their original language and starts using another, often more prestigious, language instead.
What is language shift?
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?
If a pidgin becomes the first language of a community, it develops into this fully developed language.
What is a creole?
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?