brain
L1 acquisition
L2 acquisition
regional variations
social variations
100
What do you call one half of the brain?
hemisphere
100
When does the critical period finish?
in puberty (13-16 years)
100
What is a second language?
The other language spoken in the community next to the mother tongue
100
What's the difference between an accent and a dialect?
accent- refers only to pronunciation dialect -refers to pronunciation and language forms
100
What are the two social groups taken into account in social dialect analysis?
middle class and working class
200
Which hemisphere controls expressing emotions?
the right one
200
Which consonants does a baby vocalize first?
k,g, b,
200
What is the Joseph Conrad phenomenon relate to?
the difficulties in acquiring native-like pronunciation of L2
200
Decipher the acronyme NORMS
non-mobile, older, rural, male speakers
200
What do you call a conventional way of using a language that is appropriate in a specific context?
register
300
True or false: Broca's aphasia affects comprehension.
False
300
If a single word functions as a whole sentence, the speech of this kind is .....
holophrasic
300
what is the most significant 'component' of the affective filter?
self- consciousness of a learner
300
What do we call the line that divides the two areas where two different variants of some language form are used?
an isogloss
300
What is AAVE
African American vernacular English
400
What do you call the test that shows the advatage of the left hemisphere for processing language input?
Dichotic listening test
400
What is the evidence that children don't acquire language by repetition and correction?
They make the mistakes and make up phrases which adults don't use
400
What is the basic belief behind the audiolingual method?
Language is a set of habits that can be developed through a lot of practice.
400
what do you call the phenomenon of one dialect mixing with another one along the boundaries?
dialect continuum
400
What do we call adjusting the way of speaking to the listener?
speech accommodation
500
What is conduction aphasia|?
The damage to the arcuate fasciculus.
500
What does a 'wug test' show?
That children actively construct and apply the rules of language
500
What are the three features of an interlanguage?
- it's a set of rules - those rules are variable - it's different for each learner
500
What are the stages of language planning?
-selection -codification - elaboration - implementation - acceptance
500
What do we call technical vocabulary typical of a given topic area?
jargon
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