Exam 1: phonology Flashcards
What is cross adoption acquisition and what are the stages?
Attrition L1 while learning L2
3-6 months: lose first language
8-10 months: learn new sound system
after 2 years: equal skills to monolingual children
what is successive language acquisition and what are the stages?
1 language at home and 1 with peers usually in school
Child uses L1 in L2 environment
non-verbal stage: working to comprehend
speaking: single words, short phrases, high frequency statements
3-5 years: English used creatively in conversation and academics
What is simultaneous language acquisition and what are the stages?
2 languages prior to age of 3
2 separate lexical systems: no overlap
2 lexical systems with same syntactic rules
lexical system and syntactic rules from each
Differences between reduplicated, variegated, and marginal babbling
reduplicated (6-7 mo): repetition of consonant-vowel syllables
Variegated (7-10 mo): shows changes is CV1CV2
Marginal (5 mo): slow alteration between vowels and consonant
individuals knowledge of their language system
linguistic knowledge
share characteristics of both vowel and consonant
features
study of the articulation and perception of phonemes
phonetics
small puff of air produced with stops
aspiration
study of word formation
morphology
study of the mental processes and representations of language
psycholingusitcs
spoken segments
allophone
core of a syllable
nucleus
properties sounds including pitch length and stress
suprasegmentals
less sonorant segment after nucleus
coda
study of sentence formation
syntax
components shared by all languages
universality