LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Flashcards
Babbling
A production of sounds that resemble many different languages.
Cognitive development
The development of thinking capacity.
Development
The series of age-related changes that occurs over the course of a person’s life span.
Developmental norms
The median ages at which children develop specific behaviors and abilities.
Expressive language
The ability to use language to communicate.
Generative
The characteristic symbols of a language that can be combined to produce an infinite number of messages.
Language
A system of symbols and rules used for meaningful communication.
Linguistic relativity hypothesis
A theory proposed by Benjamin Lee Whorf that claims that language determines the way people think.
Metalinguistic awareness
The capacity to think about how language is used.
Morpheme
The smallest meaningful unit in a language.
Phoneme
The smallest distinguishable unit in a language.
Receptive language
The ability to understand language.
Symbol
A sound, gesture, or written character that represents an object, action, event, or idea.
Syntax
A system of rules that governs how words can be meaningfully arranged to form phrases and sentences.
Telegraphic speech
Speech that contains no articles or prepositions.
