Life
When was Aitchison born?
What is July 3rd, 1938?
What are the three stages that Aitchison proposed in language development of the child?
what is Labeling, Packaging, and network building?
Name a book that Aitchison has published
What is New Media Language, Words in the Mind, Language Change: Process or Decay?, The Language Web: The Power and Problem of Words, The Articulate Mammal, or The Seeds of Speech?
Name one of the three of Aitchison's metaphors
What is "Damp spoon syndrome" "Crumbling Castle View" or "Infectious disease assumption" ?
Which linguist would Aitchison agree with on the idea that learning language is influenced by INNATE abilities?
Who is Noam Chomsky?
Where was Aitchison a professor at?
What is University of Oxford?
Give an example of Labeling
what is when a child says ''mummy'' you know that they mean ''mommy.''?
T or F The articulate Mammal discussed the correlation between child communication and communication amongst chimps
What is True?
Describe the "Damp spoon syndrome"
What is the idea that language change is due to peoples laziness, similar to when damp spoon is put in sugar bowl?
Define Networking
what grasping the connections between words; understanding that some words are opposite in meaning?
Where did Aitchison get her Masters at? Where did she get her AM at?
What is she got her masters at Cambridge and her AM at Radcliffe?
In packaging, what does it mean when you stretch the definition of the word?
What is over extension?
In which book does Aitchison discuss the "Damp Spoon Syndrome" and "Crumbling Castle View" ?
What is "The Language Web" ?
What was Aitchison’s argument on the Crumbling Castle View.
What is the depiction of language as a beautiful building at its peak but is now crumbling. Aitchison argues that language never reaches its peak, and you cannot preserve something that is inevitably changing?
Besides Chomsky, who was the other linguist Aitchison shares similarities with?
David Crystal
At London School of Economics, what positions did she hold? (what did she teach? There are three of them!)
What is an assistant lecturer, senior lecturer, and reader in linguistics?
What did Aitchison believe the speed of learning was influenced by?
What is innate abilities, environment, and imitation?
What is one topic that Aitchison discusses in The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics ?
What is innateness of language, the implications of Chomsky's theory, the ability of children to acquire language, and cognitive and construction grammar?
Describe the "Infectious disease Assumption"
What is the view that people pick up language change by trying to fit in with what is new within language and society?
T or F In Aitchison's times table of speech, a child is able to grasp more than one word at 12 months
what is false?
True or false: Aitchison believed that the change of language over time was not good.
False
What age is a child able to to achieve more complex constructions of language according to Aitchison's times tables?
what is 5 years old?