Linguistics Comp

A system which converts normal language text into speech

Three most major parts of brain

Term refers to the brains ability to control its own cognitive processing

This wave property corresponds to loudness (AKA the height of the wave)

Wernicke’s area is in which lobe of the brain

Term that refers to our conscious awareness of language as an object

Term that refers to the impact of an organisms genetics on its characteristics and fate

Three challenges most commonly associated with machine translation

this is how we classify speech sounds into specific categories of sounds, or phonemes

What design feature refers to how words have no inherent connection between their sounds and meanings?

What design feauture is unique to humans and describes how brand new things can be made and understood?

what type of wave when added together makes a complex wave?

Authors like Laozi, Sun Tzu, and Confucius wrote during this period in the history of the Chinese language.

Book that talks about Hegel’s grandest experiment

Term that refers to the process of hearing and understanding speech

Term that refers to the impact of an organisms environment on its characteristics

The language that William Shakespeare spoke and wrote his works in.

The design feature that describes how any particular language is learned through social interaction.

This term refers to the tendency for some cognitive processes to be specialized to one hemisphere of the brain or other

Which type of wave is a sound wave(the medium is parallel to direction of the wave)

What lobe is Broca’s area in

A persons ability to hear remember and imitate sounds they hear from another dialect or language

"Standard Chinese" refers to this specific variety.

This is the part of the brain where language is lateralized in 50% of left handed people, and 90% right handed people

A language with many varieties is standardized depend of political power

Term that describes our tendency to automatically classify the speech sound we hear into distinct categories of sounds

The category of words that are, in at least one sense, exceptions to the design feature of arbitrariness.

The year that William the Conqueror invaded England.

This region of the brain is the physically largest, and is where language occurs

Term that describes technology that “understands” human language

The faculty of our mind the monitors what we are saying for mistakes

A writing system in which each unique symbol corresponds to about word or meaning.

The design feature that describes how humans can use language to talk about things at a different time and place.

The field that studies how computers and language interact

This region of the brain is associated closely with language production

Unlike spectrograms, waveforms do not show this property of waves at all.

This wave property is defined as the duration of time for a single wave

The romans allied with this germanic tribe so they could keep invaders at bay but the empire fell anyway

This term refers to when features of one language affect the learning or use of another

This field is the scientific study of language.

The design feature that describes how humans can both send and receive language signals.

The design feature that describes how humans can intentionally say false, misleading or meaningless things.

an annotated example of this type of speech wave representation

These are the four lobes of the brain

Due to the principals of ethical research, you must be granted this if researching/using human test subjects

what is the name of the bundle of nerves that connects the two hemispheres of the brain

This theory suggests there is a limited period in childhood for us to develop Language.

Term that describes technology that attempts to use and understand human language

What do you call the process of hearing and understanding speech

The design feature that describes how any specific thing we say has a specific meaning.

The common ancestor of the Romance languages.

This wave property corresponds to pitch defined as how many waves occur within a given time period

This term refers to the tendency for some functions to be specialized to a specific region of the brain