Language Facts
principal method of human communication, consisting of words used in a structured and conventional way and conveyed by speech, writing, or gesture
Language
She is known as on of the first interpersonal and translators (Louis and Clarke)
Sacajawea
The study of sentence structure
Syntax
Requires the use of the vocal cords to produce sounds
Voiced consonants
ˈmeni
Many
English is in this group
West Germanic
This linguist, often called the father of linguistic, invented the theory of universal grammar
Noam Chomsky
IPA
International Phonetic Alphabet
This airstream mechanism involves the lungs and respiratory muscles setting the air into motion.
Pulmonic
ju:
You
A word that is untranslatable
Lacuna or lexical gap
This linguistic anthropologist worked on the classification of American languages and came up with the concept of linguistic relativity
Edward Sapir
A form of language peculiar to a specific region or group
Dialect
This phonation type is when the vocal folds are held loosely open, but a high rate of airflow causes the vocal folds to flap as the air rushes by.
Breathy voice/murmur
gru:p
Group
This form of language does not use prefixes or suffixes
Analytic languages
This linguist introduced the idea that every word is a linguistic sign, which consisted of a signifier and the signified
Ferdinand de Saussure
This field is used in tools such as instant machine translation, speech recognition systems, and text-to-speech recognition systems
Computational Linguistics
Name the 3 major types of air stream mechanisms used to initiate speech sounds
Pulmonic Egressive, Glottalic Egressive/Ingressive, Velaric Ingressive
ðæt
That
This language has 58 consonants, 31 vowels, and four tones
Taa, native to Botswana, Namibia, with 2,509 native speakers
Israeli linguist who studies and teaches Jewish texts, and prefers the use of books rather than textbooks for reading, a method known as Whole Language.
Tsvia Walden
Name 3 of the 5 levels of linguistics
Phonetics/Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics
k͡ǃ uses what airstream mechanism(s)
Pulmonic egressive, velaric ingressive
saɪˈkɒlədʒi
Psychology