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MLU

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Mean length of utterance

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Canonical babble

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The production of reduplicated language-like sounds; rhythmic

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3
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Ambient language

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Childs native language spoken by the mother

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Speech segmentation

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Breaking down speech stream into chunks

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Articulatory filter

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Vihman 1993 - infants tuning into sounds produced in their own babble

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Salience

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How much something stands out

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Prosody

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Patterns of stress and intonation of language

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Allophone

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A phonetic realisation of a phoneme (dark and clear l)

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Phoneme

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Unit of speech sound

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Domain general

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Mechanisms that function together and do effect eachother

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Domain specific

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Mechanisms that function independently and don’t effect eachother

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Labial consonant

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Consonant sound made using the lips as one articulator

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Bilabial

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Sound made using both the lips

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14
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Vowel formant

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The qualities of a vowel

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Front vowel

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Sounds produced at the front of the mouth

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CDI

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Communicative Development Inventory, specific to languages eg. Oxford CDI for British English

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Critical period

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A period during development in which a particular skill or characteristic is believed to be most readily acquired

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WEIRD population

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Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic

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Word type

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Refers to the number of distinct words, not counting repetitions

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Word token

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Refers to the total number of words regardless of repetition

21
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Operant conditioning

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A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment

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Geminate consonant

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A long consonant that contrasts with a shorter counterpart

23
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Truncation

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A form of clipping and shortening a word

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Mutually exclusive

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Describes things that can’t occur simultaneously

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Heritage language

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A minority language learnt by speakers at home but not fully developed due to dominant language eg. English

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Matched-guise test

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Determines true feelings of a person or community towards dialects, languages or accents

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Code-switching

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Alternating between two or more languages in a sentence

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