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Language first module Flashcards

1
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Displacement
Example-Last night, At the mall

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Human can talk about past, future time, place, people

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2
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Arbitariness

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no logical connection between the form and signal and what it means

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3
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Iconicity

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semblance between the sign and meaning

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4
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onomatopoeia
-Arf arf, ring ring

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language mirroring, echoing the sound

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5
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Productivity

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Human language that is evolving

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6
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duality (double articulation)

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organized at two levels to combine a pool

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7
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cultural transmission

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we do not inherit language, it is acquired to the culture we are exposed to

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8
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Spoken language
time

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100,000 to 50,000 years ago

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9
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written language

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5,000 years ago

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10
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tower of babel

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divine source theory

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11
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imitation of natural sound in the environment

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Natural sound theory (Bow wow)

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12
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Sounds in physical effort

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YO HE HO Theory

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13
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Distinct physical features adopt to support speech production

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Physical adaptation source

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14
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In africa, before language

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KIntu a thing

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15
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in africa upon learning language

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muntu

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16
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Particullar form of words and speech used by a group of people of a society, country, area, or The method of communcation using spoken or written words

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Term language

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17
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Language has ______ function and ________
function.

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social and emotional

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18
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language is more than _______

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Communication

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19
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All communication has similar feature, human can claim__________ __________

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Exclusive features

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20
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capabilities to comprehend and produce language, language is not limited to what is said and heard

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MACRO SKILLS IN LANGUAGE

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21
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Five macro skills

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Listening
Reading
Speaking
Writing
Viewing

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22
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oral skills?

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speaking and listening

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23
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literacy skills

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Writing and Reading

24
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Receptive skills

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Reading, listening

25
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Productive skills?

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writing and speaking

26
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Modes of linguistic communication

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Oral
Writing
Signing

27
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What are the micro skills

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Pronounciation, grammar, vocabulary, spelling

28
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Primary mode of human language

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Speaking

29
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Cave to carve walls, pictogram to invent writing

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Writing

30
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Visible gestures to communicate

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Signing

31
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ASL- facial and body gestures

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American sign language

32
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knowledge and skill in actual communication

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Communicative competence

33
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what one knows about the language and use

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knowledge

34
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how well one can perform in actual communiation

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Skill

35
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Father of modern linguistics

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nom chomsky (1928)

36
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He used grammatical competence for teaching learning and testing language

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Noam chomsky 1928

37
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Broadened competence to include social and cultural context

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DELL HYMES (1927-2009)

38
Q

Coined by dell hymes

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communicative competence

39
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Four competence areas
-Deals with grammar pronounciation vocabulary spelling punctuation

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Linguistic

40
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Advance level of language competency concerned with culture and social rules, politeness, addresing people correctly and being politically correct

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Sociolinguistic

41
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Four competence areas
-Patterns of organization

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Discourse

42
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Four competence areas
-Modifying message with regard to the audience and purpose

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Strategic

43
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Science of language

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Linguistics

44
Q

Historical focus of language _________
recently focussed in other aspects

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Grammar

45
Q

Speech sounds

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Phonethics

46
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Phonology

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Patterns

47
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Structure of words

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Morphology

48
Q

structure of sentences

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syntax

49
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Literal meaning

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semantics

50
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meaning in context

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Pragnantics

51
Q

language and society

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Sociolinguistics

52
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Language and literature

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Stylistics

53
Q

Language and the brain

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Phsycholinguistics

54
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Language in use

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applied linguistics

55
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Spoken and written language in programming

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Computational linguistics

56
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Similar and dissimilar of common origin

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comparative linguistics

57
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Evolution and history of language

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Historical linguistics

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