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| 4819783733 | language | the way we communicate meaning (spoken, written, or gestured) to ourselves and others | 0 | |
| 4819783734 | phonemes | the smallest distinctive units of sound used in a language | 1 | |
| 4819783735 | morphemes | the smallest units of meaning in a language | 2 | |
| 4819783736 | grammar | the system of rules in a language that enables us to communicate with and understand others | 3 | |
| 4819783737 | semantics | the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences | 4 | |
| 4819783738 | overregularization | occurs when children apply a grammatical rule too widely and therefore created incorrect forms (I holded the door open for my friend) | 5 | |
| 4819783739 | syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences | 6 | |
| 4819783740 | receptive language | the ability to understand language | 7 | |
| 4819783741 | Wernicke's | ________________ area in the brain allows you to understand language | 8 | |
| 4819783742 | productive language | the ability to produce language | 9 | |
| 4819783743 | Broca's | ________________ area in the brain allows you to produce language | 10 | |
| 4819783744 | babbling | universal noises made by babies around the age of four months | 11 | |
| 4819783745 | holophrase | one-word phrases babies make around the age of 12 months | 12 | |
| 4819783746 | telegraphic speech | two-word phrases babies make around the age of 24 months | 13 | |
| 4819783747 | critical period | if children are not exposed to language before a certain age, they will be unable to acquire language | 14 | |
| 4819783748 | universal grammar | all human languages have the same grammatical building blocks, such as nouns, verbs, subjects, and objects | 15 | |
| 4819783749 | language acquisition device | innate speech-enabling structures in the brain that allows us to learn language | 16 | |
| 4819783750 | surface structure | learning ABCs, just the letters and layout of the words | 17 | |
| 4819783751 | deep structure | combining words to make meanings | 18 | |
| 4819783752 | linguistic determinism | thinking affects our language, which in turn affects our thoughts | 19 | |
| 4819783753 | B.F. Skinner | he argues that language acquisition is based on the principles of operant conditioning (babies imitate sounds and then are reinforced; NURTURE POINT OF VIEW) | 20 | |
| 4819783754 | Noam Chomsky | a linguist who argues that young children possess an innate capability to learn and produce speech; he believes that children in widely different cultures progress through the same stages of language development at about the same age and in the language acquisition device (NATURE POINT OF VEW) | 21 | |
| 4819783755 | Benjamin Whorf | a linguist who believed that a language does more than describe a person's culture; he argued that a person's language may also shape a person's thoughts and perceptions (linguistic determinism) | 22 | |
| 4819783756 | Sultan | chimpanzee who demonstrated insight by getting out-of-reach food with a stick | 23 | |
| 4819783757 | Koko | gorilla who cold sign over 1000 words (called Pinocchio a "baby elephant") | 24 | |
| 4819783758 | Washoe | chimpanzee who could sign about 132 words; gave an interview to a New York Times reporter | 25 | |
| 4819783759 | Kanzi | chimpanzee who roasted marshmallows | 26 |
