Animal Communication & the language instinct
The period from birth to puberty when children are able to effortlessly acquire language
What is the critical period?
What is the first stage of language production in babies?
What is babbling?
This term refers to a regional variety of a language with distinct pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.
What is a dialect?
What is an offensive, derogatory term used to refer to members of some group?
What is a slur?
This language has the most native speakers in the world.
She was severely abused and deprived of language until after puberty
Who is Genie?
What is the set of innate principles and adjustable parameters that is common to all languages?
What is Universal Grammar?
Who often determines which dialect is standard?
Who are the rich and powerful?
These are used differently based on the status and closeness of the two speakers?
What are T and V pronouns?
These sentences have ambiguity and cause you to go back and reinterpret them.
What are garden path sentences?
Who was the female are who was taught ASL and knew around 1000 signs?
Who is Koko?
What is the term for when kids make mistakes like "foots" or "goed" that show they have learned a rule but misapply it?
What is overgeneralization?
In the United States, this dialect is spoken by many African Americans and is recognized for its rich cultural and linguistic history.
What is AAVE?
This theory involves managing "face," or an individual's self-image.
What is politeness theory?
People who speak the same language can still have trouble communicating.
What is cross-cultural communication?
Who claimed that children are born with an innate ability to acquire language?
Who is Noam Chomsky?
Noam Chomsky proposed that humans are born with this innate ability for language learning - what did he term this?
What is the language acquisition device?
This is a fully developed, stable language that arises from the blending of two or more languages, typically as a result of prolonged contact between different linguistic communities.
What is a creole?
In Korean, speakers avoid direct pronouns altogether in formal situations, instead using this type of reference
What are honorifics?
the use of rising intonation in statements (not questions)
What is uptalk?
There is a dominant gene that causes a genetic language disorder. What is the disorder?
What is specific language impairment?
At what age do babies lose the ability to discriminate between sounds that are not present in their native language?
How old is 10-12 months?
When did the standard American English dialect shift from New England to the Midwest?
When was after WWII?
The T/V pronoun system originated in this ancient language, where tu and vos were first used.
What is Latin?
When visual and auditory information mismatches and affects how sounds are perceived.
What is the McGurk effect?