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Language acquisition
Historical Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Potpourri
'Mo'pourri
100
The idea that humans are genetically equipped with the ability to learn to speak and understand language.
What is The Innateness Hypothesis?
100
English belongs to this branch of the Indo-European language family
What is Germanic?
100
An individual’s unique way of speaking
What is idiolect?
100
Words in related languages that developed from the same ancestral root
What are cognates?
100
A speaker’s awareness about language and the use of language
What is metalinguistic awareness?
200
The stage during which a child’s speech consists of one-word utterances
What is holophrastic?
200
This sound change caused a major restructuring of the vowels of English in the Middle Ages
What is the Great Vowel Shift?
200
A person whose speech is affected and reinforced by where they live is said to have this.
What is a regional dialect?
200
Slang terms used by a specific profession, occupation, or science.
What is jargon?
200
The idea that a bilingual child builds a distinct lexicon and grammar for each language
What is the separate system hypothesis?
300
The kind of error a child is making when, instead of saying ‘brought’, she says ‘bringed’
What is overgeneralization?
300
This term describes a change in the meaning of a word to a more negative meaning
What is pejoration?
300
The phonological qualities of a particular dialect
What is accent?
300
The phenomenon of a bilingual speaker moving back and forth between two languages in a sentence.
What is codeswitching?
300
This theory explains the difference between first and second language acquisition
What is the fundamental difference hypothesis?
400
The stage of learning a child is in when his speech omits many grammatical morphemes and/or function words
What is telegraphic?
400
A sound change occurred in Germanic languages that can be illustrated thus: p,t,k>f,θ,h; b,d,g>p,t,k; bh, dh, gh> b,d,g.
What is Grimm's Law?
400
A language spoken by common agreement among people who have different native languages.
What is lingua franca?
400
The different types of speech used in varying situations.
What are styles? (or registers?
400
In Middle English, the word ‘dogge’ refers to a specific breed of dog. Now it refers to the general category.
What is broadening?
500
The simplified language adults use when talking to young children
What is motherese?
500
The abbreviation of longer words by leaving out one or more syllables
What is clipping?
500
A language created by two or more groups of speakers of different languages in contact, that has no native speakers.
What is a pidgin?
500
The property of language whereby there is no natural or intrinsic relationship between the way a word is pronounced and its meaning
What is arbitrariness?
500
The Middle English word ‘hund’ refers to the general category of dogs, but now refers only to a specific group of breeds (hounds).
What is narrowing?