Terminology
Language Acquisition
Language and the Human Brain
ABC's of Language
Did you know that?
100
When children have problems with the shifting reference of pronouns
What is Deixis
100
Children know most grammar of their native language before this age.
What is Five
100
This tasks measure response time.
What is a lexical decision
100
These are represented with a comma.
What are pauses
100
This man proposed the idea of localization.
Who is Franz Joseph Gall
200
The study of linguistic performance in speech production and comprehension
What is Psycholinguistics
200
Every content word in English has this.
What is Stress
200
An image of a speech signal is displayed on this.
What is a spectrogram
200
This type of writing was done by pressing a wedge-shaped stylus into clay tablets.
What is Cuneiform
200
The acquisition of this clearly demonstrates the rule-governed nature of language acquisition.
What is Morphology
300
To build the simplest structure consistent with the grammar of the language.
What is Minimal Attachment Principle
300
Children may do this when they cannot produce a sound.
What is substitute an easier sound
300
The mental process of this involves determining the syntactic relations among words and phrases.
What is Parsing
300
"The children are going to bed by eight o'clock.", "The children are going to bed by eight o'clock!", and "The children are going to bed by eight o'clock?", are all examples of this.
What is Inotation
300
"The only thing that I can say again is madder or modder fish sudden fishing sewed into the accident to miss in the purdles," is an example of this.
What is Wernicke's aphasia
400
This is the surface of the brain which receives messages from the sensory organs, initiates actions, and stores our memories and our knowledge of grammar.
What is the cortex
400
Between 2:6 and 3:6, children experience this and undergo rapid development.
What is a language explosion
400
This is a network of 200 million fibers that join the two hemispheres and allow each hemisphere to communicate with each other.
What is corpus callosum
400
Some languages use these, which are two letters used together to represent a single sound.
What are digraphs
400
This is just another example of linguistic creativity and makes use of written features used throughout the history of writing.
What is Text messaging
500
These systems are based on artificially constructed alphabets to look real.
What is Pseudo-writing
500
Adults speak to children using a simplified version of language known as this.
What is motherese
500
This can be characterized by labored speech, difficulty with sentence formation and agrammatism.
What is Broca's aphasia
500
A phonemic alphabet for Korean called Hangul was designed by this man.
Who is King Seijong of Korea
500
Dutch, French, Norwegian and Russian have all undergone these in the past 100 years.
What are Spelling reforms