6163-090 ENGL Language Acquisition Fall 2002 Ralf Thiede
Final Exam Pr epar ation Sheet
12-11-02
2 from your class notes / answer sheets for the midterm:
Phonetics
be able to identify the articulators in the human vocal tract be able to locate vowels in a cardinal vowel diagram for Standard American English be able to classify consonants by place and manner of articulation
Phonology
be able to transcribe a short text phonemically
Mor phology
be able to map out the internal structure of a word in a tree be able to identify inflectional and derivational affixes
Lexicon
be able to identify the parts of speech of English
Syntax
be able to identify syntactic functions (subject/predicate, complements, modifiers) be able to draw X-bar phrase structure representations of young children's small clauses ESL the theoretical package of Krashen
& from Peccei, Child Language
the technical terms in the margins of chs. 1-10 ch. 2 underextensions, overextensions (analogical and categorical), and "statement" ch. 8 caretaker speech (esp."motherese")
& from Klein, Second Language Acquisition:
33-39 50-52 59-62 80-88 propensity end state (also 150-51) the learner's four tasks (cf. handout) the syntax of basic learner varieties
97-98 stages of progress in negation (Cancino et al. 1978) 117 deixis 118 phoricity (anaphoric reference points to preceding text, cataphoric forward, cf. p. 120 middle) 122 distribution of information in the sentence (Prague School) 124 time reference, aspect, and 150 aktionsart backsliding 150-51 fossilization 151-53 no negative evidence / setting rules to critical
& from Radford, Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax:
35 the discovery of lexical categories and subcategories (observable evidence) 41 thematic linearization (ordering by semantic roles) 46, 50 specifier, modifier, and complement positions in an X-bar tree 49 English functional categories D, I, and C 60 linearity parameters 87 possessive Case assignment by -'s to the left / syntactic movement for Case within DP 116 I-to-C movement in questions 116-17 wh-movement to [SPEC,CP] 139-40 subject raising for Case marking by finite I to the left 145 discharge of [+TNS,+AGR] in I: modal, raised auxiliary, discharge to V, do-insertion 163 morphosyntax of IP absent from early child syntax
& from Lado, Linguistics Across Cultures:
page section theor etical under pinning 2 11 13 36 2.1 1.6 2.3...