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| 8035605652 | language | our spoken, written, signed, or gestured words and the way we combine them to communicate meaning | 0 | |
| 8035620609 | phonemes | in spoken language, the smallest distinctive sound unit | 1 | |
| 8035727773 | morphemes | in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning | 2 | |
| 8035761836 | grammar | a system of rules in a language that enables us to communicate and understand others (includes syntax and semantics) | 3 | |
| 8035783085 | syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible senses | 4 | |
| 8035810334 | semantics | the set of rules by which we derive meaning in a language | 5 | |
| 8035876858 | receptive language | passive; listening and reading | 6 | |
| 8035880946 | productive language | active; speaking and writing | 7 | |
| 8035910695 | crying stage | effective form of verbal communication | 8 | |
| 8035950359 | cooing stage (2 months) | earliest stage of speech development; expresses feelings of pleasure | 9 | |
| 8035965684 | babbling stage (3-10 months) | 3-4 months infant makes spontaneous sounds 6 months phonemes appear 9-10 months pick up phonemes of people around them | 10 | |
| 8036048967 | one-word stage (12 months-2 yrs.) | uses one word to communicate big meanings | 11 | |
| 8036091118 | two-word stage (2 yrs.) | grammatically correct two-word sentences | 12 | |
| 8036131499 | operant learning (Skinner) | explain language development through simple social learning theory (association --> imitation --> reinforcement) | 13 | |
| 8036173769 | inborn universal grammar (Chomsky) | we do learn language, but acquire untaught words and grammar way too fast for it to be completely learned (Poverty of the Stimulus Theory) | 14 | |
| 8036253787 | Benjamin Lee Whorf | language determines the way we think | 15 | |
| 8036369208 | bilingual advantage | bilingual children's ability to inhibit one language while using the other allows them to better inhibit their attention to irrelevant information | 16 | |
| 8036401119 | thinking without language | we can think in words, but more often we think in mental pictures | 17 |
