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| 6716319817 | Aphasia | Impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's Area or to Wernicke's Area. | 0 | |
| 6716322564 | 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. | 1 | |
| 6716326581 | Broca's Area | Controls language expression - an area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere, that directs muscle movements in speech. | 2 | |
| 6716331219 | Grammar | In a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate and understand others. | 3 | |
| 6716333624 | Linguistic Determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think. | 4 | |
| 6716335277 | Morpheme | In a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word. | 5 | |
| 6716337646 | One Word Stage | The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words | 6 | |
| 6716344031 | Overgeneralization | the process of extending the application of a rule to items that are excluded from it in the language norm, as when a child uses the regular past tense verb ending -ed of forms like I walked to produce forms like I goed or I rided. | 7 | |
| 6716346690 | Phoneme | In language, the smallest distinctive sound unit. | 8 | |
| 6716348851 | Semantics | The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language. | 9 | |
| 6716351128 | Syntax | The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language. | 10 | |
| 6716361672 | Telegraphic Speech | Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram - "go car" - using mostly nouns and verbs. | 11 | |
| 6716369541 | Two Word Stage | Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two word statements. | 12 | |
| 6716373784 | Universal Adaptability | In linguistics, the point when an infant can distinguish sounds from any language and reproduce them. | 13 | |
| 6716381770 | Universal Grammar | the theory of the genetic component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky. | 14 | |
| 6716393533 | Wernicke's Area | Controls Language Reception - a brain area involved in language comprehension and expression. | 15 |
