Language Development & Acquisition Flashcards
What is the theory of universal grammar?
Universal grammar is a theory in linguistics, usually credited to Noam Chomsky, proposing that the ability to learn grammar is hard-wired into the brain.
What is bilingual education?
Bilingual education involves teaching academic content in two languages, in a native and secondary language with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
What is semantics?
Semantics is primarily the linguistic, and also philosophical study of meaning-in language, programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics.
What are suffixes in linguistics?
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.
What is holophrastic?
Holophrasis is the prelinguistic use of a single word to express a complex idea.
What is linguistic language development?
Language development is a process starting early in human life.
What is diglossia?
In linguistics, diglossia refers to a situation in which two dialects or languages are used by a single language community.
What is morphology?
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.
What is grammar in linguistics?
In linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.
What is nativist theory?
In the field of psychology, nativism is the view that certain skills or abilities are ‘native’ or hard-wired into the brain at birth.
