Thursday, 20 October 2016
Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-B_ONJIEcE
Language is not:
1. Written Language
2. Proper Grammar
Language is:
-Distinctive
-Essential
-Mysterious
-Words
-Rules: syntax, morphology, phonology,
-Interfaces
Language is not:
1. Written Language
2. Proper Grammar
Language is:
-Distinctive
-Essential
-Mysterious
-Words
-Rules: syntax, morphology, phonology,
-Interfaces
A2 Language Term One Test
A ‘question and answer’ or ‘statement and response’ is called an adjacency pair.
The term for saying “yeah” or “uh huh” while someone else is talking is called back-channelling agreement.
When talk flows swiftly from one turn to the next it is called latched talk.
Observers paradox is when you affect the data you are studying by investigating it.
The investigation data needs to be ethical, comparable and reliable.
AO3 award marks for context.
GRAPE stands for genre, reception, audience, purpose, expectations.
It is important to analyse texts for how they create meanings and representations.
Connotations, lexical field and metaphor etc., all come under the framework 'lexis'.
Deborah Tannen investigated the difference theory.
Deficit features include; empty adjectives, intensifiers, hedges, tag questions, super-polite forms etc.
Deborah Cameron said " Your GENES don't determine our JEANS".
Trudgill carried out his norms research in Norwich.
The island locals in Martha’s Vineyard showed covert prestige.
There was more pronunciation of the post-vocalic R sound in more expensive stores in Labov’s ‘fourth floor’ study.
Overgeneralisation is the term for when children apply standard grammatical rules to irregular verbs and nouns.
There are 15 morphemes in the following quote - “now you can’t exactly be like Jesus (0.5) instead you just get some help”
The stage after the two-word stage is called the telegraphic stage.
Amongst Halliday's functions, the instrumental function is for getting your needs met.
Dr Deb Roy carried out research on his son and discovered that caregivers simplify the utterances around a word that is about to be learned.
The term for saying “yeah” or “uh huh” while someone else is talking is called back-channelling agreement.
When talk flows swiftly from one turn to the next it is called latched talk.
Observers paradox is when you affect the data you are studying by investigating it.
The investigation data needs to be ethical, comparable and reliable.
AO3 award marks for context.
GRAPE stands for genre, reception, audience, purpose, expectations.
It is important to analyse texts for how they create meanings and representations.
Connotations, lexical field and metaphor etc., all come under the framework 'lexis'.
Deborah Tannen investigated the difference theory.
Deficit features include; empty adjectives, intensifiers, hedges, tag questions, super-polite forms etc.
Deborah Cameron said " Your GENES don't determine our JEANS".
Trudgill carried out his norms research in Norwich.
The island locals in Martha’s Vineyard showed covert prestige.
There was more pronunciation of the post-vocalic R sound in more expensive stores in Labov’s ‘fourth floor’ study.
Overgeneralisation is the term for when children apply standard grammatical rules to irregular verbs and nouns.
There are 15 morphemes in the following quote - “now you can’t exactly be like Jesus (0.5) instead you just get some help”
The stage after the two-word stage is called the telegraphic stage.
Amongst Halliday's functions, the instrumental function is for getting your needs met.
Dr Deb Roy carried out research on his son and discovered that caregivers simplify the utterances around a word that is about to be learned.
Thursday, 13 October 2016
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