Semantics
A term we use to describe words like 'and,' 'or,' and ' 'not.'
What are logical connectives?
The term we use for CV strings like badabada produced by infants.
What is babbling?
The type of impairment traditionally ascribed to Broca's aphasics.
What is production impairment?
A pidgin that has native speakers
What is a creole?
Name one presupposition of the sentence, 'The president's daughter's teacher owns three dogs.'
What is (for e.g.) 'The president has a daughter' or 'The president's daughter has a teacher'?
The type of semantic relation that relies on shared background assumptions, which must be true in order for a statement to be true or false in the first place.
What is a presupposition?
Another term for the one-word stage.
What is the holophrastic stage?
What is sine-wave speech?
A feature shared by both AAE and ChE
Negative concord
Name one entailment of the sentence, 'The president's daughter's teacher owns three dogs.'
The president's daughter's teacher owns two dogs.
The principle stating that the meaning of a sentence is determined by the meanings of the words it contains and the way they are combined.
What is the Principle of Compositionality?
This describes a type of bilingual who has perfectly equal proficiency in their two languages.
The EEG component reflecting semantic surprisal.
What is the N400?
Three paradigms for explaining style-shifting
What are 'attention paid to speech,' 'audience design,' and 'speaker design'?
Variation that patterns by user.
What is inter-speaker variation?
The diagnostic that allows you to identify implicatures in contrast to entailments and presuppositions.
What is being cancellable?
Some research suggests that bilinguals outperform monolinguals on tasks like the Stroop test. This is an example of the potential bilingual advantage in relation to ____________.
What is executive functioning (or cognitive flexibility)?
The type of speech error where lighting a fire becomes fighting a liar.
What is a Spoonerism?
The phenomenon where an individual shifts how they speak to be more similar to the way their interlocutor speaks.
What is accommodation?
The phenomenon where someone shifts their speech toward the standard, but ends up using even more of the standard variant than speakers of the "standard" generally do.
What is hypercorrection?
The two other Gricean Maxims which are not the Maxim of Manner and the Maxim of Quantity.
What are the Maxim of Quality and the Maxim of Relevance?
The term describing the fact that the linguistic input is not informative enough for learners to figure out all aspects of the language.
What is the Poverty of the Stimulus?
The MEG component showing that auditory cortex very quickly accesses phonemic representations.
What is the Auditory Mismatch Field?
Name one finding from Hoffman et al. (2024) about linguistic bias in generative AI systems.
What is [answers will vary]?
The EEG component reflecting syntactic surprisal.
What is the P600?