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| 9042657035 | language | our spoken, written, or gestured works and the way we combine them into communicating meaning | 0 | |
| 9042662433 | phoneme | in a spoken language, the smallest distinctive sound unit (Germans have trouble with "th" sound, to them sounds like "dis") | 1 | |
| 9042690422 | morpheme | in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning ("pre" in previewing or "ing" in calling) | 2 | |
| 9042708967 | grammar | system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others | 3 | |
| 9042713070 | semantics | set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language (adding "ed" to laugh means past) | 4 | |
| 9042722517 | syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language (white house, not house white) | 5 | |
| 9042737660 | whorfian hypothesis (linguistic determinism) | a cultures language shapes members thinking (more important something is to a culture, the more words exist to describe it) | 6 | |
| 9042749759 | babbling stage | 3-4 months, stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language | 7 | |
| 9042810321 | one word stage | 1-2, stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in single words | 8 | |
| 9042816862 | two word stage | 2, child speaks in mostly 2 word statements | 9 | |
| 9042821342 | telegraphic speech | early speech stage in which the child speaks like a telegram | 10 |
