Science
Bilinguals have more grey matter than monolinguals. True or false?
True
The United States has two official languages at the federal level. True or false?
False. It has none.
Learning a third language is easier than learning a second. True or false?
True
distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class
accent
Crying
Two official languages of Canada due to colonialism
English and French
Language forms peculiar to a specific region or social group but among the same people/nation
Dialects
Is the left or right brain focused on language learning and processing?
Left
Mayan, Germanic, Turkic, Slavic, Romance, Celtic are examples of language families. English is part of this language family.
Germanic
A person who has mastered numerous languages
Polyglot
Another word for dialect
vernacular
B.F. Skinner (behaviourism) believed that children learned language by this method.
Imitation
Language that enslaved people from West and Central Africa formed from the dialectal forms of English spoken by the slaveholders: British English, Scots, and Hiberno-English in 17th century.
Patois (pa-twa) spoken in Jamaica
most linguistically diverse country in the world, with approximately 840 languages use
Papua New Guinea
a language that has developed from a mixture of two languages
pidgin
Famous linguist known as the "father of modern linguistics"
Noam Chomsky
When a government forbids its citizens to use certain languages
Language suppression
when there is linguistic diversity in a country, a region or a particular community.
societal multilingualism
a mixed language spoken as a first language
Creole: Pidgin language that gets passed on to the next generation who speaks it as a first language