SLO1 WGU

SLO1 WGU

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Teacher 161 terms MrsPunzalanPreview Theories of Second Language Acqui...Teacher 40 terms rendywussell Preview Praxis 5 Teacher sara Practice questions for this set Learn1 / 7Study using Learn Each symbol represents a syllable (Japanese) SemanticsStudy of linguistics meaning of morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences PragmaticsThe study of how context and situation affect meaning HomonymTo, too, two HomographBear, bear spelled and pronounced the same Choose an answer 1Hieroglypic writing system2Syllabic writing system 3Ideographic writing system4Alphabetic writing system Don't know?

MetaphorNon literal meaning IdiomMeaning unrelated to the meaning of its parts DiscourseLinguistic unit composed of several sentences DeixisMost know context to understand You go there.She did that.AnaphoraReplacing a longer expression with a shorter one AnomalyViolation of semantic rules Phonetic alphabetRepresent phonetics segments of speech Cat - /k/ae/t/ AllomorphAlternate phonetic forms of a morpheme Dog - d>g Dogs -dagz OrthographyWritten form of a language GlottisOpening between the vocal cords ObstruentClass of sounds consisting of nonnasal stops, fricatives, and affricates SonorantSounds vowels, glides, liquids, nasal SuprasegmentalProsodic features Manner of articulationAirstream is obstructed as it travels through the vocal tract Place of articulationPart of the vocal tract at which constriction occurs during the production of speech sounds BilabialSounds made by bringing the lips together LabiodentalSounds made by touching the bottom lip to the upper teeth AlveolarRaising tongue to alveolar ridge PalatalRaising front part of tongue to the palate VelarRaising back of tongue to the soft palate or velum

UvularRaising back of the tongue to the uvula VoicedSounds using voice VoicelessSounds made with open and nonvibrating vocal cords OralAir escaping through mouth NasalAir through nose OvergeneralizationWhen Lang learners apply certain rule to situations where the rule doesn't work Cutted, eated, runned LADLanguage acquisition device/universal grammar: device in brain which is where language is acquired Critical period hypothesisLenneberg: there is a window of opportunity for people to acquire a first language Caretaker talkModified talk used by parents and other caretakers when talking to young children.Esso baby BehaviorismIn regards to lang acquisition, language learning is a matter of imitation and habit formation

InnatismChomsky: children are biologically programmed for language

InteractionismLanguage develops as a result of the complex interplay between the uniquely human characteristic of the child and the environment in which the child develops Foreigner talkModified language used by native speakers of a language when speaking to a nonnative speaker Modified inputChanging language to make it more understandable for one's conversation partner Contrastive analysis hypothesisLinked to behaviorism because they believe that errors in L2 come from l1 interference Krashen's five hypothesisAcquisition learning Monitor Natural order Input Affective HolophrasticStage of child language acquisition where one word = one sentence

TelegraphicUtterances of children after the two-word stage when any grammatical morphemes are omitted DialectLanguage variety used by a particular group of speakers Regional dialectLang variety used by a particular group of spellers in a certain geographical region Social dialectLang variety used by a group of speakers who share the same social status IsoglossBoundary separation one regional dialect characteristic from another AccentPronunciation of a specific regional dialect by a nonnative speaker Standard American EnglishAn idealized dialect of English that is considered by some prescriptive grammarians to be the proper form of American English African American EnglishDialect of English spoken by some African Americans EbonicsAlternative term for the various dialects of African American English first used in 1997 Chicano EnglishDialect of English spoken b some bilingual Mexican Americans in the southwest and California Code-switchingThe insertion of a word or phrase other than that being spoken into a single sentence, or the movement back and forth between two languages or dialects Lingua FrancaMajor language used in an area here speakers of more than one language love that permits communication and commerce among them PidginRule governed lang developed for communication among speakers of mutually unintelligible languages, often based on one of those languages Market language CreoleLanguage which started as a pidgin learned by children as 1st language Style/registerSituation dialect School; friend; church; work; family