The c __________period hypothesis refers to a period in one's life experience extending from about age two to puberty, during which the human brain is most ready to acquire a particular language and language learning can proceed easily, swiftly, and without explicit instruction.

What are the four maxims under the cooperative principle? And illustrate with one example how the violation of the maxim of quality gives rise to conversational implicature.

Which enjoys priority in modern linguistics, speech or writing? Why?

language acquisition

interpersonal communication

constatives

language planning

cognate

stylistic synonyms

morphology

finite clause