chapter 10 second half Flashcards

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Phoneme

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in a lanuage, the smallest distinctive sound unite

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Language

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our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning

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Morpheme

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in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning, may be a word or a part of a word

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Grammer

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in language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others

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semantics

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the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes,words, and sentences in a given language, also, the study of meaning

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syntax

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the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language

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Babbling Stage

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beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language

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One-word Stage

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the stage in speech devlopment, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in a single word

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Telegraphic Speech

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early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram- “go car” - using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting auxiliary words

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Noam Chomsky

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Said, children learn their language from their environment

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Linguistic Determination

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Whorf’s hypothesis that language determines the way we think

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