morphology
phonology
dialectology
language acquisition
language and the brain
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The smallest part of a word that has consistent meaning and grammatical function.
What is a morpheme
100
what are the nasal consonants?
M, N
100
What is a dialect?
Mutually intelligible forms of language that differ in systematic ways.
100
An instinctive mental capacity which enables an infant to acquire and produce language.
What is Language acquisition device?
100
Where is language localized in the brain?
The left hemisphere
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Is SAW a bound or free morpheme?
Free morpheme.
200
What are the manners of articulation?
Stops, fricatives, affricates.
200
A language often used by common agreement is?
Lingua Franca
200
Bring: Bringed, Go: Goed, Mouse: Mouses are all examples of this linguistic error.
What is Over generalization?
200
“The horse raced past the barn fell,” is an example of what?
A garden path sentence.
300
A morpheme that can occur alone.
What is a free morpheme?
300
State three voiceless consonants
P, F, TH, T, S, SH, CH, k
300
True or false; ChE and AAE speakers can only speak their native dialect, not StandardAmerican English.
False
300
This man coined the term Operant conditioning: The idea of stimulus followed by reward or punishment affects language development.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
300
In what way is language arbitrary? In what way is it conventional?
It’s arbitrary in that most things are named as they are for no discernible reason. Its conventional in that we accept the arbitrary names to mean what they do.
400
An additional element classified accordingly to whether they are attached before, after, or in the body of the word to which they are added.
What is an affix?
400
what are the places of articulation?
Bilabial, Labiodental, Interdental, Alveolar, Palatal, Velar, (Glottal)
400
Linguistic differences based on social context is known as?
Sociolinguistic variables
400
The idea of Classical conditioning or Respondant conditioning states that language is developed through:
Stimulus and association to create a conditioned response.
400
What are Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia, and what are their respective symptoms?
Broca’s aphasia: characterized by labored speech and certain kinds of word finding difficulties, but it is primarily a disorder that affects a person’s ability to form sentences with the rules of syntax. Wernicke’s aphasia: the person’s language is semantically incoherent, they have difficulty naming objects presented to them, and in choosing words in spontaneous speech. They may also make lexical errors.
500
Is NAUT in astronaut a bound or free morpheme?
Bound morpheme
500
Describe the consonant sound TH. ð
interdental, fricative, voiced
500
What is the difference between a Pidgin and a Creole?
A creole expands the lexicon and grammar of the existing pidgin.
500
Abbreviated CDS, the formal term for the suggestion that children are able to learn language because adults speak to them in a special simplified language. (Baby talk):
What is Child-directed speech?
500
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
The proposition that the structure of a language influences how its speakers perceive the world around them.
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