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| 432955528 | Language | our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning | |
| 432955529 | Phoneme | In a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit | |
| 432955530 | Morpheme | In a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or part of a word | |
| 432955531 | Grammar | In a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others | |
| 432955532 | Semantics | set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning | |
| 432955533 | Syntax | rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language | |
| 432955534 | Babbling | stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language | |
| 432955535 | One-word | stage in speech development, from 1-2, during which a child speaks mostly single words | |
| 432955536 | Two-word | stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements | |
| 432955537 | Telepathic | Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram with noun-verb phrases and no auxiliaries | |
| 432955538 | Adult-like speech | Speech rapidly develops into complete sentences | |
| 432955539 | Linguistic determination | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think |
