Language Contact
Language
Acquisition
Language and
the Brain
Sociolinguistics
Pragmatics
100

This type of language contact occurs when two languages influence each other without speakers interacting directly, often through media or trade.

What is indirect language contact?

100

The omission of the last consonant in a word refers to this phonological process.

What is final consonant deletion?
100

Nonfluent aphasia results from damage to the IFG, also known as this.

What is Broca's area?

100

This is a group of people who all speak the same dialect. 

What is a speech community?

100

Responding to "Where are you going?" with "Out" is flouting this maxim. 

What is the Maxim of Quantity?

200

When speakers of different languages create a simplified, makeshift language to communicate, it is called this.

What is a pidgin?

200

A baby verbalizing "babababa" is demonstrating this type of babbling. 

What is reduplicated/canonical?

200

The right motor cortex controlling the left side of the body is referred to as this.

What is contralateralization?

200

When many different isoglosses fall in approximately the same location (or separate the same group of speakers), they form this.

What is an isogloss bundle?

200

Saying "Clean up or toys or I will throw them in the trash!" is an example of this type of speech act.

What is a "threat"?

300

This process happens when a language is no longer spoken by any native speakers, often because people shift to a more dominant language.

What is language death?

300

A child who is speaking in single words and understands more words than they use is in this stage of language development.

What is first words stage?

300

Following a TBI, an individual speaks fluently, but incomprehensibly. They are likely suffering from this. 

What is Wernicke's Aphasia?

300

When the same word means different things in different language varieties. 

What is semantic variation?

300

In order to have successful conversations, we expect people to follow this.

What is "The Cooperative Principle"?

400

This occurs when a community gradually stops using their original language and starts using another, often more prestigious, language instead.

What is language shift?

400

Someone who learns a language at home from birth and then learns another language at daycare starting at 6 months is referred to as this type of bilingual language learner.

What is simultaneous?

400

This is the ability of the brain to adapt to damage and retrain areas.

What is neural plasticity?

400

A speaker who chooses to differ from the standard and assimilate to a different non-standard language variety is exhibiting this.

What is covert prestige?

400

An underlying assumption that a speaker believes (and behaves as though other participants in the discourse believe) prior to making an utterance.

What is "presuppostion"?

500

If a pidgin becomes the first language of a community, it develops into this fully developed language.

What is a creole?

500

A child who is learning to form longer sentences, has about 2000 words, and uses morphological overgeneralization is in this stage of language development.

What is preschool?

500

This is the part of the brain that converts visual stimuli into linguistic information. 

What is the angular gyrus?

500

The use of "habitual be" is a feature of what English dialect?

What is African American English?

500

If an utterance is appropriate relative to context in which it occurred, it is said to be this.

What is "felicitous"?