- A question and answer or statement and response is called adjacency pairs.
- The term for sating things such as 'yeah' or 'uh huh' while another is talking is called back channel agreement.
- Latched talk is when talk flows swiftly from one tern to the next.
- Observer paradox is when you affected the data you are studying by investigating it.
- The investigation data should be ethical, comparable and reliable.
- A03 marks are gained through context.
- GRAPE- Genre, Reception, Audience, Purpose and Expectations
- Text should be analysed for meanings and representations
- Terms from the framework lexis are connotations, lexical field and metaphor, etc...
- Tannen's theory supported the difference theory
- Deficit features are things such as empty adjectives, intensifiers, hedges and tag questions
- Deborah Cameron said "you genes don't determine your jeans".
- Trudgill did his norms research in Norwich
- The island locals on Martha's Vineyard showed covert prestige
- There was more pronunciation of the post-vocalic R sound in the more expensive stores in Labov's 'fourth floor' study.
- Overgeneralisation is 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 telegraphic stage comes after the two-word stage.
- The Halliday's function for getting your needs met is instrumental.
- Deb Roy did research on his son and found that caregivers simplify their utterances around a word that is about to be learnt.
Thursday, 20 October 2016
A Level language (A couple key points)
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Horizon - Why do we talk?
- Speech and language define us from other animals
- Children learn to speak with minimal effort
- Despite the amount of research done and being done how we learn is still a mystery
- Dr Deb Roy - Speech home project. Found parents simplify language (convergence) to match child's simple language and as the child's language becomes more complex so does the caregivers.
- By the age of 5 years old a child knows around 5000 words
- For humans the voice box is low within the throat and on animals it quite high. This was suggested to be the reason we could speak but they could not, however, it was found that animals actually drop their voice box with they make noises. This shows that the different positions of the voice box does not determine whether you talk or not.
- Dr Kathy Price - Highlighting the key areas in the brain that are associated with language (nature)
- Babies respond to their mothers before anyone else. They pick up sound within the womb
- Noam Chomsky - Language acquisition device (lad). There is a blueprint for language but we need to be exposed early on
- It was noticed that in a family with a speech problem there was a problem with chromosome 7
- Also in an unrelated child it was found that a part of the chromosome was missing which was affecting the child's speech ability.
Stephen Fry - Planet world origins of language
- 2 years is a key age for language to start, they acquire 10 new words a day
- Dadda and Mumma are frequent first words
- Chimps cannot acquire like we can however they can make commands by pushing buttons and use sign language but not have/hold conversations
- As a human communication is used for collaboration
- Medical research found Fox P2 as a chromosome in charge of language - only a small change within this chromosome can alter the ability of language. For example rats are only 3 amino acids different for humans
- We know more about the universe than we do our brain
- The brain has the ability to rewire itself if damaged
- There is a window for language development that closes around early puberty
- Dr Deb Roy - Created the speech home project. He recorded every second of his sons first three years of life to analyzing his speech development. Suggests a childs semantic awareness out strips their phonologival awareness ( Understands what they want to say but just do not have the ability to say it)
- Steven Pinker - Children say things they've never heard before which suggest children are born with the ability to speak
- Jean Berko Gleason - Developed the WUG test. Suggests parents need to provide the opportunity to speak in different contexts
Thursday, 15 September 2016
AQA exam board homepage
http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/english/as-and-a-level/english-language-a-2700
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
In the background
Screams are all I can hear these days. They're
there when I go to the bathroom and when I
trying to make food. I can't get rid of it. You'd
think that it will be easy to live with but it is not.
Never should have left the hospital.
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