What is the name of Chomsky's theory of first language acquisition that states that language is a result of biological programming?
100
This theory which says that learning cannot account for the rapid rate at which a child acquires English
Nativism
100
Positive transfer
What kind of transfer occurs when an individual is successful in applying a structure from his/her first language to the second language?
100
The name of the printer who brought the printing press to England and printed the first book in English
Who is William Caxton?
200
The most important writer during the Middle English period
Who was Geoffrey Chaucer?
200
The three non-linguistic stages of language acquisition
What are crying, cooing and babbling?
200
Interactionist
What is the theory that says both nature and nurture play a role in language acquisition?
200
The cognitive style associated with attending to details (i.e., seeing the trees not the forest) and success in school
What is field independence?
200
The writer of the first book printed in English
Who Chaucer?
300
Name of the period in which Shakespeare wrote
What is Early Modern English?
300
Theory that says that there is a critical age at which language must be learned or the process becomes increasingly difficult.
What is the Critical Age Hypothesis?
300
Genie Wiley.
The individual who was deprived of normal language interaction until after she reached puberty.
300
The social-psychological motivation that is most important in second language acquisition (i.e., a learner’s desire to become part of the community or culture represented by the L2).
What is integrative motivation?
300
Spelling was standardized in this period
What is Middle English
400
The three original groups of invaders of England
Who are the Angles, Jutes and Saxons?
400
The theory of language acquisition which says that the environment is largely responsible for first language acquisition
What is the behaviorist theory of language acquisition?
400
When children cannot differentiate and use a general term to refer to many items that are similar in a certain aspect?
What is the overgenralization?
400
The theory that says that all children are born with the knowledge of the common properties of all human languages.
What is universal grammar?
400
The name of the language family from which the English language comes
What is Indo-European?
500
The name and date of event that first brought the French Normans to England
What is the Normal Conquest in 1066 CE?
500
When a child understands an utterance in the order that the information is presented.
What is the Order of Mention?
500
The measurement of the number of morphemes in an utterance (MLUs).
What is how the acquisition of syntax is measured?
500
The theory that accounts for the earlier acquisition of common or easy words or grammar before uncommon or difficult aspects of a language.
What is markedness?
500
Two languages which English to which English is closely related
What is German and/or Yiddish, Frisian, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans?