Ch 12 Vocab

Question 1

coarticulation

Answer 1

Co-occurrence of the characteristics of two or more phonemes as one phoneme influences another in perception or in production; may be forward (anticipatory) or backward (carryover).

Question 2

genderlect

Answer 2

The style of talking used by men and women.

Question 3

delay markers

Answer 3

Used by adult speakers to indicate an upcoming pause, not the end of a conversational turn. i.e. “uh” and “um”

Question 4

shading

Answer 4

Modifying the focus of a topic. Can be used to gradually move from one topic to another while maintaining some continuity in the conversation.

Question 5

metalinguistic

Answer 5

Pertaining to the use of language knowledge to make decisions about and to discuss processes of language.

Question 6

social-indexical knowledge

Answer 6

Knowing how linguistic variability conveys or is perceived to convey a speaker’s membership in different social groups.

Question 7

articulatory knowledge

Answer 7

Knowing the movements needed to produce different speech sounds.

Question 8

neighborhood density

Answer 8

The number of possible words that differ by one phoneme and a factor characteristic in shaping a child’s emerging lexical system.

Question 9

metacognitive

Answer 9

Knowing what to do cognitively and how to do it–knowledge about knowledge and about cognitive processes.

Question 10

contingent responses

Answer 10

Responses that are related to the previous utterance.