Week 5 Midterm Def Flashcards
1
Q
Linguistic Universals
A
Features that are present in most languages
2
Q
Pidgin
A
Simpler version of a language created for communication purposes by people who speak different languages, forced into prolonged contact
3
Q
Creole
A
When a pidgin has native speakers
4
Q
Statistical Learning
A
Learning about the environment around them by extracting statistical regularities around them
5
Q
Mutual Exclusivity
A
General bias that objects and linguistic labels have a one-to-one correspondence
