The American linguist who compared animal communication systems and human languages.
Who is Charles Hockett?
100
The first (nonverbal) step in Language Production.
What is the Message?
100
The anatomical feature (not in the brain) that evolved in humans to help form the language we have today.
What is the larynx?
100
The "melody" of a sentence that utilizes emphasis as a determinant of the sentences true meaning.
What is intonation?
100
The idea that language allows for certain ideas and that people with different languages think in different ways.
What is Whorfianism?
200
The property that meaningful units (morphemes) are made up of meaningless units (phonemes) which can be recombined over and over again to make different words.
What is the duality of patterning?
200
The second step in Language Production; when nonverbal messages are translated into words.
What is Grammatical Encoding?
200
The two parts of the brain dealing with language that are most likely to have evolved over time.
What are the Broca's area and Wernicke's area?
200
Reading a sentence requires this type of information processing.
What is Botton-Up processing?
200
This culture has unique language and concepts for spacial representation.
What is Aboriginal Australian tribes?
300
Researchers have asked whether chimpanzees could learn a language if it were taught to them if this part of the chimpanzee was more evolved.
What is the vocal tract?
300
The third step in Language Production, when words are translated into sounds.
What is Phonological Encoding?
300
The hypothesis that predicts that early humans limited speech to the mother or kin.
What is The 'Mother Tongues' Hypothesis?
300
This is an accidental release of information, described as a paraprax; based on the unconscious.
What is a Freudian Slip?
300
The fact we can easily learn other languages suggests that language has only a small role in thinking. This is a problem with what?
What is linguistic determinism?
400
Although chimpanzees cannot vocally use language, they can be taught and understand this kind of language.
What is sign language?
400
The phenomenon that happens when a person knows a words definition and/or the first or last letter of the word but cannot seem to recall that word into memory.
What is The 'Tip-of-the-tongue' Phenomenon?
400
The theory that argues that early words were imitations of the cries of beasts and birds.
What is The 'Bow-Wow' Theory?
400
The oscillating vocabularies of these individuals seems to be lesser than individuals without this desired skill.
What is Bilingualism?
400
Studies in 5 month old infants suggest that language independent thinking is this.
What is hard-wired?
500
The crucial property that separates human language capacities from other animals communication systems.
What is syntactic recursion?
500
The example "I wrote a mother to my letter" is this type of language error.
What is a word-exchange error?
500
The man who proposed that a single chance mutation occurred in one individual on the order of 100,000 years ago, triggering the 'instantaneous' emergence of the language faculty.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
500
This useful tool allows one to retrieve words that dictate syntax.
What is Lexical Accessibility?
500
A phenomenon that bilinguals experience more often than monolinguals.