Introduction to Speech, Language, and Hearing
Your professor's first and last name.
What is Diane Jandron?
The most spoken, written, and widely scattered language.
What is English?
Term for Elizabethan times that now means fishermen.
What is Watermen?
'Nitty Gritty' may have referred to this.
What are eggs of head lice?
The meaning of 'See the Elephant' to the 49ers.
What is 'To experience a catastrophe?'
The place where your professor lived for 10 years.
What is Arizona?
The language children in Belize and the Caribbean must speak in school.
What is English?
The dropped "r" seen today on the East Coast of the U.S. came from here.
What are the south and east of England? (Accept Anglo-Saxons, Germanic tribes)
What is ungrammatical, lazy, and unknowledgeable?
These groups of people started Jive talk.
Who are the Jazzmen and African-American Communities of Harlem?
Your professor's heritage.
What is Finnish?
How English was initially carried to every corner of the globe starting in 1600.
What is by armies, navies, companies, and expeditions?
The language was created when German-speaking immigrants came to Pennsylvania and is still used.
What is Pennsylvania Dutch?
The travel across the Atlantic to America influenced the beginnings of American English for this reason.
What is the language melting pot?
Where is downtown clubs, radio shows, TV shows, and news (journalists)?
Our TA's first and last name.
Who is Joanna Holmgren?
People who didn't speak the Queen's English were considered this. DAILY DOUBLE FOR EXACT TARGET RESPONSE
What are lessers?
DAILY DOUBLE: The place where Black English speakers first heard English.
What are slave trade ships? (Accept Southern colonies)
The name of the local band that promoted the term Yooper.
Who are da Yoopers?
Walt Witman's unique influence on American English.
What is the first lyrical voice?
The sport/club your professor participated in at NMU.
What is cheerleading?
The outward and visible sign of belonging to the professional middle class. Which version of English historically?
What is Received Pronunciation?
He wrote Huckleberry Finn in American English/slang.
Who is Mark Twain?
It was the wording on a bumper sticker in response to say, "Say Yes to Michigan."
What was "Say Ya to Da U.P. eh?"
One possible reason that language in an area may be secluded.
What is natural land barriers and close community?
Name four modes of communication.
What are:
signing, talking, vocalizing, crying, writing, facial expression/body posture, proximity, movement, tone of voice, inflection, gesture/pantomime, drawing, and pointing.
The Industrial Revolution created these which also spread English.
What are roads, canals, and trains?
"For real," "bet," and "fly" terms came from this type of language.
What is Jive talk?
This is located in the Chesapeake Bay.
The Tangier Island.
The US State that does not have a Native American name.
What is Louisiana?
DAILY DOUBLE: It is elaborate, sophisticated, and constantly evolving over time. A system of rules or means of conveying a message.
What is communication (or language)?
Allowed people during the First World War to hear the voice of someone not present.
What are telephone wires?
The trade route between Great Britain, America, and Africa was referred to as this.
What is the Atlantic Triangle?
DAILY DOUBLE: This refers to a temporary language created to communicate due to unshared languages.
What is Pidgin?
The language that the 'Authorized Version' of the English Bible was translated from.
What is the Greek language?
Name one of the extralinguistic types of information we process that are a part of language.
What are paralinguistic, non-linguistic, and metalinguistic?
DAILY DOUBLE: They brought English to Britain. Name one.
Who are the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes? (Name at least one)
They used terms such as "mad as a meat axe," "dead as meat hammer," and "an axe to grind."
Who are the Scots-Irish?
This language was created by the Europeans, African slaves, and the natives of the Caribbeans.
What is Caribbean Creole?
The Scots-Irish Frontiersmen brought this to the English language.
What is aphorisms, proverbs, superstitions, and an ability to create a striking phrase?
Four types of nonlinguistic cues.
What are:
gestures, body posture, facial expression, eye contact, head and body movement, physical distance.
The sacred language of Hinduism.
What is Sanskrit?
The reason young girls/women were more influenced by black English than the boys/men.
What is the girls/women stayed home? Or what is the boys went to school?
The place where the British unloaded convicts in 1788.
What is Botany Bay, Australia?
Some Black people continue to speak the Gullah language, even though it was seen as inferior, because of this.
What is honoring their heritages and their parents?
The earliest form of communication of an infant. Not intentional/planned.
What is reflexive behaviors?
He was the first founder and embellisher of our English.
Who was Geoffery Chaucer?
This genre of music was influenced by the Scots-Irish.
What is country music?
"bruvver," "Didn," and "gawdelp us" are examples of this London Language.
What is Cockeny?
The Scots-Irish pushed past Pennsylvania and settled in the remote parts of this land.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?