SYNTAX
Who is the founder of syntax?
Michael Etinson
True or false:
Sign language is a visual means of communicating through hand signals, gestures, facial expressions, and body language.
TRUE
Who invented the term pragmatics?
Charles Morris
What is language development?
a) A visual means of communicating through hand signals, gestures, facial expressions, and body language.
b) The order or arrangement of words and phrases to form proper sentences.
c)A higher level cognitive skill involving audition and oral abilities in humans to verbally communicate individuals' wants and needs.
C)
A higher level cognitive skill involving audition and oral abilities in humans to verbally communicate individuals' wants and needs.
Genie
What is syntax
A) the study of meaning in language
B) the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
C) the study of how languages and their users interact.
B) The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Sign language is the main form of communication for which specific community/group
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community
What does the word "semantics" mean?
Semantics is the study of meaning in language
The field of study dedicated to morphemes is called what?
morphology
TRUE OR FALSE
Her father BARKED and GROWLED at her every time she vocalized to keep her quiet.
TRUE
What year was the syntax established?
1972
TRUE OR FALSE:
There are somewhere between 127 and 200 different types of sign language used around the globe today.
False
( 138 and 300)
explain lexical semantics
deconstructing words or phrases to try and understand the meaning and the context
TRUE OR FALSE
The Nativist Theory proposes that humans are not born with an already existing language-learning area in our brain.
FALSE
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TRUE OR FALSE
Syntax is the study of how languages and their users interact.
False
What was the name of the person who created sign language?
Pedro Ponce de León
(Pedro was only credited with the idea but we don't know who originally came up with it.)
Define the term: pragmatics
The study of how languages and their users interact.
According to the Interactionist approach, language is dependent on _____________
A) Communicating
B) Learning
C) Listening
A) Communicating
She was locked alone in a room from the age of how many months to how many years.
20 months to 13 years
Name one of the 4 types of syntax that were mentioned in the presentation
Simple sentences, Compound sentences,Complex sentences, Compound-complex sentences.
In which country does a thumbs up mean the middle finger?
Greece.
Name one of the different theories used within semantics.
formal semantics/ lexical semantics /conceptual semantics.
What was the name of the person who came up with the Interactionist approach
Vygotsky
Explain how this case study relates to language development
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