He's Just Going Through Aphasia
The hemisphere, or half, of the brain in which language processing is concentrated for most people.
What is the left hemisphere?
The type of speech error in which an upcoming unit is moved to an earlier point in the utterance.
What is anticipation?
A variety of a language spoken by a particular population of speakers.
What is a dialect?
The term for two words in separate languages that are related in form and meaning due to being descended from a common ancestral word.
What are cognates?
The age at which infants begin to lose the ability to distinguish phonemes from languages other than their own.
What is 6-7 months?
The region of the brain in the __ area which is primarily responsible for controlling speech articulation.
What is Broca's area?
The type of speech error in which an earlier unit is continued or duplicated at a later point in the utterance.
What is perseveration?
The type of dialect that is defined by the geographical distribution of its speakers.
What is a regional dialect?
Sound changes that affect every instance of a particular sound, regardless of the surrounding phonetic environment.
What is are unconditioned sound changes?
The slowed-down, repetitive style of language often used towards infants by their caregivers.
What is infant-directed Speech?
The region of the brain in the __ area that is primarily responsible for controlling speech understanding.
What is Wernicke's area?
The type of speech error in which the ordering of two units is switched.
What is transposition (or metathesis)?
The type of dialect defined by the social status of its speakers.
What is a social dialect?
The type of sound change in which one sound becomes more similar to an adjacent sound.
What is assimilation?
The hypothesis that there is a crucial time frame during childhood, after which it becomes much more difficult to learn a second language.
What is the critical period hypothesis?
The type of aphasia, or speech disorder, in which speech is fluent and grammatical, but nonsensical.
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
What is deletion?
The idea, held by many people, that a particular language variety is "good" or "bad".
What is a language attitude?
The term for an unrecorded, reconstructed language that is presumed to be ancestral to currently existing languages.
What is a proto-language?
The age by which children will have acquired the bulk of their language's inflectional morphology.
What is four years-old?
The type of aphasia, or speech disorder, in which articulation, but not comprehension, is impaired.
What is Broca's aphasia?
The type of speech error when two units are merged into a single unit.
What is a blend?
The ongoing linguistic change that is causing people in the Great Lakes region to pronounce "busses" like "bosses".
What is the Northern Cities Vowel Shift?
The technique used by linguists to reconstruct historical stages of a language.
What is the comparative method?
The term in language acquisition theory for the use of L1 features when learning an L2.
What is transfer?