Dua-lIPA
ˈkændi kɔːn
Candy Corn
the quality of being well-formed in a language
what is grammaticality
A theory from the 1960's that thought all languages shared a single syntactic base structure
what is Universal Grammar
Quechua
Boliva, Peru, Northern Chile
the number of languages estimated to be in the world
What is 7,000?
trɪk ɔː triːt
trick or treat
a state of affairs in the world; something that can be true or false
what is a proposition
A theory from the 20th century that postualted that language shaped and constrains people's cognitive function
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Hopi
Arizona, USA
When language is lost, the amound of this three-word name for epistomology is also gone
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge?
ˈspɪrɪt ˌhæləʊˈiːn
Spirit Halloween
cohesive unit within the larger meaning of a sentence.
what is a constituent
The creator of this theory states that all humans have the innate faculty of human grammar
Who is Noam Chomsky
Yidinji
Australia, (Carins)
this common word-order phenomena was a central hallmark for Greenberg's Universals
What is Subject then Object!
ˈɡɒblɪnz ænd ɡuːlz
the familiarity that a person has with a word; how often you hear/speak the word
what is lexical frequency
This theory states that there are certain common 'base' features in the vast majority of languages.
What are Greenberg's Universals
Pirahã
Brazil (Amazon Delta)
These words/morphemes show spatial/termpro relations between
what are adpositions
ˈspuːki ˈskeəri ˈskɛlətᵊnz
spooky scary skeletons
:is anything you can say
what is an utterance
This theory states that language influences how we perceive and experience the world
Linguisitc relativity (The Weak Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis)
Mapugundun
Chile
These are the Five largest language families in the world
Niger–Congo: ~1,400 languages
Austronesian: ~1,270 languages
Indo-European: ~580
Sino-Tibetan: ~490
Afro-Asiatic: ~370