Introduction to Speech, Lanuage, 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?
This is Mark Twain's real name.
What is Samuel Clemens?
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)
The period of time most important for development of our brains.-- Molly Wright
What are the first five years?
The Early Scots-Irish settlers moved to this area in America.
What are the woods and mountains of West Virginia?
Your professor's heritage.
What is Finnish?
How English carried to every corner of the globe between 1600 and now.
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 game Molly Wright said would change the world.
What is peekaboo?
White women were more influenced in "Negro Language" more than white men because of this.
What is they heard it around the house house from slaves?
Your professor's hometown.
What is Ishpeming?
People who didn't speak the Queen's English were considered this.
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.
This transition of the bible was compared to Shakespeare.
What is the King James Bible?
The sport/club your professor participated in at NMU.
What is cheerleading?
The outward and visible sign of belonging to the professional middle class.
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?"
This word originiated from Black American jazz culture and was used to describe someone who is overly prepared or lacks spontaneous behavior.
What is "uptight?"
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.
Sabir helped develop Black English during the slave trade doing this.
What is the use of pidgin language?
DAILY DOUBLE: It is elaborate, sophisticated, and constantly evolving over time.
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.
DAILY DOUBLE: This refers to a temporary language created to communicate due to unshared languages.
What is Pidgin?
What are Germans, Italians, and Jews?
The three extralinguistic types of information we process are part of language.
What are paralinguistic, non-linguistic, and metalinguistic?
DAILY DOUBLE: They brought English to Britain.
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?
This former president stated: "New circumstances... call for new words, new phrasesm and the transfer of old worlds to new objects."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
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?
These are languages that contributed to Caribbean Creole.
What is English, French, Spanish, Portugese?
The earliest form of communication from an infant is considered to be this.
What is reflexive?
He was the first founder and embellisher of our English.
Who was Geoffery Chaucer?
What is country music?
"bruvver," "Didn," and "gawdelp us" are examples of this London Language.
What is Cockeny?
This is how the perception of Black English has changed overtime.
What is it gained recognition as a legitimate and culturally rich form of expression?