The optimum age for second language acquisition is .

Linguistics is generally defined as scientific study of language. Describe briefly the process of linguistic study.

What is the Cooperative Principle? Please make an analysis of what maxim is violated by B and what implicature is produced in the following conversation.A: The speaker is an awful bore. Don't you think?B: The lecture hall is spacious, isn't it?(This is said when it is known to both A and B that it is entirely possible for B to make a comment on the speaker.)

hyponymy

perlocutionary act

semantic change

the critical period hypothesis

Universal Grammar

slang

interlanguage

root