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| 6004814995 | Language | Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning. | 0 | |
| 6004814996 | Phoneme | In a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit. | 1 | |
| 6004814997 | Morpheme | In a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix). | 2 | |
| 6004814998 | Grammar | A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others. | 3 | |
| 6004814999 | Semantics | The set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds. | 4 | |
| 6004815000 | Syntax | The set of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences. | 5 | |
| 6004815001 | 3 building blocks for language: | 1- Phonemes 2- Morphemes 3- Grammar | 6 | |
| 6004815002 | Babbling stage | Beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language. | 7 | |
| 6004815003 | One-word stage | The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words. | 8 | |
| 6004815004 | Two-word stage | Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in two-word statements. | 9 | |
| 6004815005 | Telegraphic speech | Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram-"go car"- using mostly nouns and verbs. | 10 | |
| 6004815006 | Aphasia | Impairment of language, usually caused by left-hemisphere damage either to Broc's area. | 11 | |
| 6004815007 | Broc's area | Impairing speaking and controls language expression. | 12 | |
| 6004815008 | Wernicke's area | Impairing understanding and controls language reception. | 13 | |
| 6004815009 | Linguistic determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think. | 14 | |
| 6004815010 | 4 months | Infants babble, making sounds found in languages from all over the world. | 15 | |
| 6004815011 | 10 months | Their babbling contains only the sounds found in their household language. | 16 | |
| 6004815012 | 12 months | Children begin to speak in single words. | 17 | |
| 6004815013 | Noam Chomsky | Proposed that all human languages share a universal grammar. | 18 |
