Thinking Problem Solving Creativity and Language
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| 5499559503 | Language | spoken, written or signed words, and the ways we use them to communicate. |  | 0 |
| 5499559504 | Phoneme | (linguistics) the smallest distinctive unit of sound |  | 1 |
| 5499559505 | Morpheme | smallest meaningful language unit |  | 2 |
| 5499559506 | Grammar | a system of linguistic rules that enables communication |  | 3 |
| 5499559507 | Semantics | the study of language meaning |  | 4 |
| 5499559508 | Syntax | the rules for grammatical arrangement of words in sentences |  | 5 |
| 5499559509 | 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 lanuage. |  | 6 |
| 5499559510 | One-word Stage | the stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words |  | 7 |
| 5499559511 | Two-word stage | beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements | | 8 |
| 5499559512 | Telegraphic speech | early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words |  | 9 |
| 5499559513 | Linguistic determinism | Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think |  | 10 |
| 5499559514 | Noam Chomsky | American linguist whose theory of generative grammar argued that language and grammar are innate, that we have a language acquisition device built in. |  | 11 |
| 5499559515 | B.F Skinner | pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments |  | 12 |
| 5499559516 | Benjamin Whorf | Linguist who theorized the concept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought |  | 13 |
