The word knight once meant “youth”, but was elevated in meaning in time for the age of chivalry. This is an example of semantic shift.

Discuss the different theories of child language acquisition with reference to the behaviorist learning model and the nativist biological model.

What characteristics of language do you think should be included in a good, comprehensive definition of language?

predication

general linguistics

design features

complementary antonyms

componential analysis

language transfer

hyponymy

broad transcription