ALDS 1001 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Linguistic Description, Standard Language, Language Of Thought Hypothesis

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies
• Course: ALDS 1001
• Professor: Chloe Grace Fogarty- Bourget

Document Summary

Mentalese: the abstract language of thought" in the mind: what we are consciously or unconsciously thinking, independent of whether it is expressible or expressed using the linguistic language" of speech, writing and sign. Inner speech: spoken (or signed) language that doesn"t get expressed. Child-directed speech: the linguistics term for the distinctive patterning of language used by some caregivers with babies. It is characterized by cooing intonation and short, simplified words. It"s also known as motherese, even though fathers and non-parents use it too (with pets as well as babies) Code-switching: the ability to form utterances using elements of multiple languages in real-time discourse and the practice of doing so. Descriptive linguistics: documents and describes what people say, sign and write, and the grammatical, lexical and phonological systems they use to do so. Theoretical linguistics: builds theories about the nature and limits of grammatical, lexical and phonological systems. Sociolinguistics: the study of language in social contexts.