Welcome to the flashcards tool for ‘The Study of Language, 5 th edition’,

Chapter 1

This is designed as a simple supplementary resource for this textbook, and

aims to help students grasp the meaning of the core essential terms within the
book. Each term will appear on its own, and you can then click to check the
definition.

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 term:

onomatopoeia
(onomatopoeic)

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 definition:

Words containing sounds

similar to the noises they
describe (e.g. bang, cuckoo)

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 term:

bow-wow theory

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 definition:

the idea that early human

speech developed from
imitations of natural sounds in
the environment

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 term:

pooh-pooh theory

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 definition:

the idea that early human

speech developed from the
instinctive sounds people make
in emotional
circumstances
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 term:

larynx

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 definition:

the part of the throat that

contains the vocal folds, also
called the voice box

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pharynx

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 definition:

the area inside the throat above

the larynx

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innateness hypothesis

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 definition:

the idea that humans are

genetically equipped to acquire
language

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