What's that sound change?
When the vowel is nasalized.
What is nasalization?
The vocalizations that come between mere crying and babbling.
What is cooing?
The hemisphere of the brain primarily used for language.
What is the left hemisphere (left-lateralization)?
The area of the brain selectively activating to written words.
What is the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA)?
The protolanguage of most of the languages spoken in Europe today.
What is Proto-Indo-European?
When two sounds switch places.
What is metathesis?
The term used to describe L2 learners whose L2 development has stagnated before reaching native-like proficiency.
What is fossilization?
The phenomenon illustrating that we rely on both auditory and visual input during speech processing.
What is the McGurk Effect?
A type of early writing system using symbols to represent words or concepts.
What is a logographic writing system?
Tone is one way to utilize pitch in language, this is the other way.
What is intonation?
When two sounds become less like neighboring sounds.
What is dissimilation?
A trait of child language acquisition, which has been demonstrated with the Wug-test, that provides support for the innateness hypothesis.
What is the ability to overgeneralize the rule system?
The type of aphasia where patients have fluent but interpretable speech as well as impaired comprehension.
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
A type of writing system where each symbol maps to a consonant (i.e., no vowels).
What is an abjad?
The term used for a language that has very few older speakers and is no longer being taught to children.
What is a moribund language?
When a final sound is lost.
What is apocope?
A fancy term for the one-word stage.
What is the holophrastic stage?
The EEG/MEG component with the earliest onset (of the ones you have learned about).
What is the Mismatch Negativity (MMN)?
The artifact making it possible to decipher hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The morphological term used to describe languages where one word consists of many morphemes and is a complete sentence.
What are polysynthetic languages?
When a sound is introduced word-initially.
What is prothesis?
The concept referring to the fact that the input is not informative enough for learners to figure out all aspects of language.
What is the poverty of the stimulus?
The EEG component associated with a syntactic anomaly.
What is the P600?
A type of writing system where each symbol maps to a syllable.
What is a syllabary?
The phonological change that occurred in English between 1400 and 1600.
What is the Great Vowel Shift?