Language

Question 1

Language

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Phoneme

Answer 2

Smallest distinctive sound unit (syllables)

Question 3

Morpheme

Answer 3

Smallest unit that carries meaning

Question 4

Grammar

Answer 4

A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others

Question 5

Semantics

Answer 5

The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words an sentences (tenses & structure)

Question 6

Syntax

Answer 6

The rules for combing words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language (casa blanca)

Question 7

Babbling stage

Answer 7

Infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated I the household language (4 months)

Question 8

One word stage

Answer 8

Child speaks mostly in single words

Question 9

Two word stage

Answer 9

Child speaks mostly two word statements

Question 10

Telegraphic speech

Answer 10

Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs

Question 11

Linguistic determinism

Answer 11

Language determines the way we think (Whorf)