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6716319817AphasiaImpairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's Area or to Wernicke's Area.0
6716322564Babbling StageBeginning 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
6716326581Broca's AreaControls language expression - an area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere, that directs muscle movements in speech.2
6716331219GrammarIn a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate and understand others.3
6716333624Linguistic DeterminismWhorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.4
6716335277MorphemeIn a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word.5
6716337646One Word StageThe stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words6
6716344031Overgeneralizationthe 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
6716346690PhonemeIn language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.8
6716348851SemanticsThe set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language.9
6716351128SyntaxThe rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.10
6716361672Telegraphic SpeechEarly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram - "go car" - using mostly nouns and verbs.11
6716369541Two Word StageBeginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two word statements.12
6716373784Universal AdaptabilityIn linguistics, the point when an infant can distinguish sounds from any language and reproduce them.13
6716381770Universal Grammarthe theory of the genetic component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky.14
6716393533Wernicke's AreaControls Language Reception - a brain area involved in language comprehension and expression.15

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