4.3 Flashcards
phonemes
basic units of sound in a language
morphemes
smallest units of meaning within a language
receptive language
the ability to understand or comprehend language heard or read
productive language
the ability to express your language through speech and writing
babbling stage
a very early stage of language development, usually occurring around ages 3-4 months, in which children spontaneously produce all sorts of nonsensical, unrelated sounds.
one-word stage
the stage in which children speak mainly in single words. For example, during the one-word stage a child isn’t yet able to say “I want milk” so they say “milk”.
two-word stage
During this stage children start using two-word sentences more than just using single words for everything. For example, a child who wants to get milk may say “get milk” as opposed to only being able to say “milk”.
telegraphic speech
speech that sounds very much like a telegram, has words arranged in an order that makes sense;
a very compressed style, without conjunctions or articles
B.F. Skinner
was an American psychologist, behaviorist
Noam Chomsky
an American linguist who contributed greatly to Cognitive psychology through language research; coined the term (LAD)
language acquisition device (LAD)
the innate biological ability of humans to acquire and develop language
overregularization
grammatical errors that usually start in the early stages of a child’s language development
Benjamin Whorf
was an American linguist who along with Edward Sapir made the linguistic relativity hypothesis
linguistic relativity hypothesis
holds that thought processes and concepts are controlled by, relative to, language
