Onomatopoeia definitions and examples in real context with images and illustrations from the book 601 Words You Need to Know to Pass Your Exam. Perfect your English vocabulary in scientific and literary context. /ˌɒn.əʊˌmæt.əˈpiː.ə/ (noun) Onomatopoeia definition the creation, coinage or use of words or vocabulary based on the natural imitation of the sound that…
Malapropism definition and meaning in real context with examples and explanations. Improve your linguistic knowledge and perfect your scientific vocabulary in context. Practice reading and listening comprehension with malapropism. /ˈmæl.ə.prɒp.ɪ.zəm/ (noun) Malapropism definition unintentional use of wrong words that share a similar pronunciation which could yield ridiculous or humorous results in linguistics, slip of the…
English Presentation Alzheimer’s Disease English Presentation Alzheimer’s Disease Watch this video on YouTube LELB Lecturer: Mojgan Handout Provided by the Lecturer How does Alzheimer affect language production? What is the relationship between retirement and Alzheimer’s Disease? Why is late retirement more beneficial in postponing Alzheimer? What is meant by “use it or lose it”, and how…
Child Language Acquisition Child Language Acquisition Cromer concludes that experience stimulates language organisational processes and that these affect other linguistic structures that are internally related. The children appeared to be building their own grammars in their own way, without direct positive or negative evidence as to what was right or wrong. Children are creative, selective…
Language Making Capacity Language Making Capacity Slobin proposes a ‘language making capacity’ (LMC) (1973, 1985). Like Chomsky’s Language Faculty, the LMC contains universal principles. Unlike the principles of Chomsky’s Language Faculty, these are ‘Operating Principles’ (OP), i.e., principles specifically for working inductively on the physical acoustic stimulus for a specific language to which children are…
Innateness Hypothesis Innateness Hypothesis It must be that the mind/brain provides a way to identify and extract the relevant information by means of mechanism of some sort that are part of its biologically determined resources. In contrast to the behaviorist hypothesis, a second theory, called the ‘innateness hypothesis’ has developed out of generative transformational grammar.…
Generative Grammar Generative Grammar According to ‘generative grammar’ proposed by Chomsky, a language is not a system of rules, but a set of specifications for parameters in an invariant system of principles of Universal Grammar (UG). It is believed that humans are able to produce sequences which they have never encountered before. A generative grammar…
Emergentism Emergentism is the name that has recently been given to a general approach to cognition that stresses the interaction between organism and environment and that denies the existence of pre-determined, domain specific faculties or capacities. Emergentism thus offers itself as an alternative to modular, ‘special nativist’ theories of the mind, such as theories of…
Lateralization Lateralization argues that the location of language functions is fixed in one of the brain’s two hemispheres, usually the left one. Cerebral lateralisation or cerebral dominance refers to the differential proficiency of the cerebral hemispheres for the acquisition, performance and control of certain specific neurological functions. Infants as young as four days show a…
Functionalist Theories of SLA Functionalist theories of L2 acquisition share a number of concerns with variability theories. For example, both are concerned not just with how linguistic knowledge is represented in the mind of the learner, but also with how this knowledge is used in discourse. Also, both types assume that syntax cannot be considered…