Biological Basis of Language
The roof of the mouth
Palate
A basic template for all human languages is embedded in our genes
Universal Grammar
When a community stops using their old languages and adopts a new one
Language Shift
Humans have all the same organs in the mouth and throat that the other great apes have but the _____is in a lower position in the throat in humans.
Larynx
Children start to acquire sounds, words, grammatical and appropriate social functions to languages at ages?
Three or four
One language that is a minority language when spoken in the U.S and shows no sign of dying out
Spanish
Where is the Broca's area located?
Proposed that all languages share the properties of what he called Universal grammar.
Linguist Noam Chomsky
Name one thing the American government did to the Native Americans
sent children to go to boarding schools
What are two areas in the brain specifically dedicated to the processing of language?
Broca's area and the Wernicke's area
This person was isolated from language until they were past puberty
Genie
Language represents a marker of ___
Identity
Throat cavity
pharynx
Research suggesting that a child will gradually lose the ability to acquire language naturally and without effort if he or she is not exposed to other people speaking a language until past age of puberty
Critical age range hypothesis
The total extinction of a language
Langauge Death