Language in Social Contexts
The definition and an example of regional variation
What is language variation based on geographical factors? Example: soda, pop, Coke
An example of an agglutinative language
What is Turkish, Finnish, Hungarian, or Japanese? (or others)
Cooing, speaking in shorter sentences with exaggerated intonation, allowing pauses
What are examples of Caregiver speech?
Brocca's area
What is one area heavily involved in language organization and production?
In English, if instead of writing "hello," we had one symbol for "he" and one symbol for "lo".
What is an example of a syllabary?
The definition and an example of sociolinguistic variation
What is language variation based on social factors, such as age, class, gender, ethnicity, orientation, etc.? Example: "That's cool!" vs. "That slaps!"
An example of a fusional language
What is Latin, Greek, German, Norwegian, or Spanish (or most other European languages, but not English)?
Using a word from your L1 as an L2 word, whether or not it is correct
What is transfer?
Wernicke's area
What is one area heavily involved in understanding spoken input?
Korean Hangul is an example of this writing system.
What is a featural system?
Sociolinguistic variable
What is a linguistic feature with two or more realizations?
An example of an analytic language
What is Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, or Thai (or others)?
Learning two languages at once, usually from birth
It's what's happening with this slip of the tongue: "You have hissed all my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm."
What is a phoneme swap (or metathesis)?
An example of a mixed writing system (often one that has symbols for words, syllables, and consonants)
What are Egyptian hieroglyphics or Cuneiform?
A pidgin
What is a contact language used by two or more groups that do not share the same language?
The Great Vowel Shift
What was the shift of long high vowels to diphthongs and other long vowels to higher vowels? (or you can just give an example)
The language constructed by a learner with aspects of their L1 and the L2
What is an interlanguage?
How words are stored in the brain
In interconnected semantic networks, phonologically (often by first letters and rhymes), and collocations
The reason for inviting Dr. Judy Kegl to Nicaragua
What is the fact that Nicaraguan teachers and administrators didn't understand all the signing happening on the playground?
Not renting to a person who speaks in the African American English variety
What is an example of sociolinguistic discrimination?
'slap' (to hit someone) → 'slap' (to be exceptionally good)
What is an example of amelioration?
The ability to communicate using correct structures appropriate to the context and social situation; also, the ability to communicate strategically
What is communicative competence?
What "The old man the boat" demonstrates.
What is a garden path sentence?
The reasons the emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language is so important to linguists
What are the birth of a language, evidence for Universal Grammar, and evidence of a critical period?