Language in Society
Human Brain
Phonology
Language Acquistion
ABC's Of Language
100
Each version of the language.
What is Regional Dialect
100
A common term for a spectogram.
What is Voiceprint
100
The study of how speech sounds form patterns.
What is Phonology
100
A continuous stream broken only by breath pauses.
What is Speech
100
The system in which both consonants and vowels are symbolized.
What is Alphabetic Writing
200
Regional phonological or phonetic distinctions.
What are Accents
200
Kind of semantic priming in which a morpheme of a multimorphemic word primes a related word.
What is Morphological Priming
200
The basic form of a sound as sensed mentally rather than spoken or heard.
What is Phonemes
200
Stress is on the second syllable.
What is Iambic
200
The chinese government has adopted a spelling system using the Roman Alphabet.
What is Pinyin
300
A dialect of English that many Americans nearly speak.
What is Standard American English (SAE)
300
Subjects are asked to repeat what they hear as promptly as possible.
What is Shadowing
300
Feature-changing rules, in which certain segments becomes less similar to other segments.
What is Dissimilation Rules
300
Children treat irregular verbs and nouns as if they were regular.
What is Overgeneralization
300
The Japanese have two syllabaries, each containing forty-six characters.
What is Kana
400
The ability to speak two languages.
What is Bilingualism
400
Neurological term for any language disorder that results from acquired brain damage caused by disease or trauma.
What is Aphasia
400
The spreading of phonetic features in the anticipation or in the perseveration of articulatory processes.
What is Coarticulation
400
Helps children to determine when words belong to the same category.
What is Word Frames
400
Some languages use two letters together.
What is Digraph
500
The extreme example of the synthetic approach.
What is Grammar Translation
500
The localization of function to one hemisphere of the brain.
What is Lateralization
500
The process of inserting a consonant or vowel.
What is Epenthesis
500
A child initially constructs only one lexicon and one grammar.
What is Unitary System Hypothesis
500
Use the symbol of one word or syllable to represent another word or syllable pronounced the same.
What is Rebus Principle
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